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IFFR 2023: Installation

11 January 2023

IFFR 2023: Installation ©Semiconductor, Spectral Constellations, 2022

Stories

IFFR 2023: Installation

11 January 2023

In Rotterdam’s Central Station, multidisciplinary Chinese artist Shuang Li presents one of her two installations in the programme, inviting the public to consider the implications of our ever-evolving digital world, with her installation Æther (Poor Objects) – combining the imagery of the annular solar eclipse with a ring light commonly used by online vloggers.

Shuang brings a second installation to the festival’s heart at ‘de Doelen’, Déjà Vu, where an orchestrated re-construction of an exhibition opening using lookalikes in place of the artist reflects on the displacement of the pandemic.

Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili, who premiered her debut feature Beginning at IFFR 2021, brings her installation Captives to Rotterdam. The artwork was presented at the Tabakalera during the San Sebastián International Film Festival as part of Vive le cinéma!, an exhibition previously part of IFFR in collaboration with Eye Filmmuseum. The installation, hosted at WORM’s S/ash Gallery, invites the audience into the deeply intimate space of an on-screen character.

The multi-channel installation Anubis is Not a Dog from Italian filmmaking collective Zapruder introduces the audience to the world of rhythmic dog dancing with a mesmerising dialogue between humans and their pets, presented in Glashaven. The artist duo known as Semiconductor use the scientific data from young stars to generate animations and mesmerising visuals for Spectral Constellations, presented at Gallery JOEY RAMONE.

IFFR previously announced the Steve McQueen artwork Sunshine State presented in collaboration with Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

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Titles

  • Æther (Poor Objects), Shuang Li, 2021, China
  • Anubis Is Not a Dog, Zapruder, 2021, Italy
  • Captives, Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2022, Georgia
  • Déjà Vu, Shuang Li, 2022, Switzerland
  • Spectral Constellations, Semiconductor, 2021, United Kingdom
  • Sunshine State, Steve McQueen, 2022, United Kingdom

Art Directions: Installations

At IFFR, we celebrate the careers of radical filmmakers and visual artists. For our 52nd edition, we have carefully curated our Focus programmes of inspiring creatives. Read more about our Focus Programmes for 2023 or check out the programme to find these films.