The Old House

<SPAN lang=EN-GB> <P dir=ltr align=justify>Because the house explodes and the footage is rerun again in reverse, the viewer is drawn into a dynamic experience of time travel. The house is destroyed and put together again, accompanied by a voice that keeps repeating the same sentence, over and over again: <I>remembering and forgetting</I>. This cycle of destruction and reconstruction symbolises all the choices made in the past that you can either remember or forget. Memory, and hence history, thereby transform into a choice as to what we remember, rather than a factual truth. </P></SPAN>

Because the house explodes and the footage is rerun again in reverse, the viewer is drawn into a dynamic experience of time travel. The house is destroyed and put together again, accompanied by a voice that keeps repeating the same sentence, over and over again: remembering and forgetting. This cycle of destruction and reconstruction symbolises all the choices made in the past that you can either remember or forget. Memory, and hence history, thereby transform into a choice as to what we remember, rather than a factual truth.

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

The Old House

Artist

Rabih Mroué (Beiroet 1967)

Dating

2006 - 2006

Material and technique

video

Object number

35356

Object type

video, installatie

Acquisition

bruikleen Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed 2020 (Bruikleen Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. Verworven door het Rijk via de kwijtscheldingsregeling (Collectie Sanders))

Dimensions

Inscriptions and markings

    Exhibitions

    • Collector's item, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2020 - 2021

    Persistent url

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    https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.7862A5A6-C0AC-43E9-BAD0-545C5FE1FD27

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