M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Mapping The Plague, 2018

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© Dora García. Photo: M HKA

Collection: Courtesy ProjecteSD, Barcelona.

Albert Camus’s The Plague takes place in Oran, Algeria, somewhere in the 1940s, about ten years before the Algerian Revolution against French colonial occupation began. Yet, the word "Arab" only appears twice in the novel – the indigenous population is clamorously absent from the plot. In Mapping The Plague, García structures the novel in 10 parts and relates these ten parts to different images pointing to Camus’s contradictions, a resistance fighter who yet found the domination of Algeria by France as something natural. The images come from films such as The Battle of Algiers by Gill Pontecorvo or The Stranger  by Luchino Visconti, as well as historical photographs of, for example, the Algerian Revolution, the Paris Commune.

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>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)

>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)

>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)

>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)

>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)

Artist

> Dora García.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: She Has Many Names . M HKA, Antwerp, 10 February 2023 - 21 May 2023.

Related Items

>Dora García, The Plague, 2018.Installation, photographs, handwritten cards, books, drawing on the floor, drawings on wallpapers.