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BELGIUM / Brussels: Ana Torfs: Echolalia
by Modem
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until Sunday December 14 2014

Wiels
T : +32 (0)2 340 00 50
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
Belgium



Echolalia is the repetition of words by a child when it learns how to talk, but it also refers to a medical condition that makes someone compulsively repeat words and sentences. Under this equivocal title Belgian artist Ana Torfs offers a survey of her most recent body of work in six various installations, all of which resonate with one another.

Except for one, these works from the period 2009-14 have never been shown in Belgium. And with The Parrot & the Nightingale, a Phantasmagoria, WIELS furthermore presents a world premiere.

The interplay between language and representation plays a central role in Ana Torfs’ work, and with it the related processes of translation and visualisation. Found texts and images often constitute the main components of her practice. These material remnants are then reworked into meticulously composed installations – with diverse media such as slide projections, audio pieces, photography and video, to tapestries and silkscreens – in which projections and allusions have free reign.

© Modem