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The Old House

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.

Title
The Old House
Dating
2006
Object type
installatie, video
Object number
35356

Rabih Mroué

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Materials
video
Technique
video
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Acquisition
bruikleen Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed (2020)
Acquisition credit
Bruikleen Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. Verworven door het Rijk via de kwijtscheldingsregeling (Collectie Sanders)
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