Chloe Delanghe
2021Demian’s Face
Chloe Delanghe
Demian’s Face is a filmic portrait which stems from the elementary desire to look at a person. Confronting this desire leads to consequences, occurring during the act of portrayal. The desire to gaze transforms rapidly into the necessity to create, an inevitable reaction. The relationship towards the person whom is portrayed evolves. From an initial intimacy and proximity, grows the immanence of distance. The images are accompanied by a spoken text excerpt from Demian. Die Geschichte Einer Jugend (1919) by Hermann Hesse, which reflects upon and guides the face.
Demian’s Face
Gestures
Chloe Delanghe
Gestures consists of a continuous dialog between what is shown and that which has been obscured. The work attempts to focus on the gestures and expressions of the depicted. The sound of her voice is present as an indication of a possible narrative, nevertheless the story remains fragmented. The distant glance of the camera struggles and tries to reconstruct a fundamental moment between two people, mother and daughter.
Gestures
Magic, A Portrait of Joris
Chloe Delanghe
In the film images sourced from different periods in time, are brought together. Worn out VHS footage filmed by the artists father is placed besides the images the artist filmed herself on 8mm. Both have the same subject, the boy as a son, for the other as a brother. The desire to look and record is one and the same, however the shape it then assumes differs. By connecting images of then and now a new narrative of remembering is opened.
Magic, A Portrait of Joris