{"id":3953,"title":"Du mentir-faux [About Lying Falsehood]","dimensions":"installation with black and white slide projections, projection socle, +/- 20 minutes, loop, digitally controlled, variable dimensions,  artist’s book ","date_begin":"2000-01-01","material":"installation with black and white slide projections, projection socle, +/- 20 minutes, loop, digitally controlled, variable dimensions,  artist’s book ","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"BK007509","stream_count_app":37,"permalink":"du-mentir-faux-about-lying-falsehood","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Ana Torfs","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/011/238/large/Torfs__0005_Anna__DMF2jpg.jpg?1343046688","poster_credits":"(c)Ana Torfs","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThink of Joan of Arc and you think of an androgynous heroine, Dreyer\u0026rsquo;s and Bresson\u0026rsquo;s unforgettable films, a perverse question-and-answer game, a tormented body, a fraught symbol\u0026hellip; What happens when an artist with all this at the back of her mind takes a fresh look at the historical sources? The work consists of a slide installation and a book. The lengthy series of black-and-white portraits of a particular young woman is occasionally interrupted by text slides showing questions \u0026ndash; quotes from the inquisition trials held against Joan of Arc during the fifteenth century.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe process of identification, to which one is naturally inclined as a viewer, gets stuck. Through the utmost sobriety of the setting, the extreme simplicity of the pose, one reverts to what one had almost forgotten: that a young actress simply was asked to make believe. In the book, the outcome of Torfs\u0026rsquo;s preliminary investigation, Joan is manifest as the continually shifting focus of intricately intertwined stories, testimonies and tendentious interpretations from which a \u0026lsquo;truth\u0026rsquo; can never be deduced. \u003cem\u003eDu Mentir-Faux\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;[On False Lying] voices several themes that frequently appear elsewhere in the work of Torfs. Among them are the relationship between text and image, or between reading and imagining, the question of the portrait (whether it is possible to capture, in a portrait, a \u0026lsquo;truth\u0026rsquo; about the portrait subject) and \u0026ndash; more broadly \u0026ndash; the tension between fiction and reality. (source: Catherine Robberechts)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eWie Jeanne d\u0026rsquo;Arc zegt, denkt aan een androgyne heldin, de onvergetelijke films van Dreyer of Bresson, een pervers spel van vraag en antwoord, een gepijnigd lichaam, een belegen symbool\u0026hellip; Wat gebeurt er wanneer een kunstenares, met dit alles in het achterhoofd, de historische bronnen opnieuw ter hand neemt? Het werk omvat een dia-installatie en een boek. De lange reeks zwart-wit portretten van eenzelfde jonge vrouw wordt nu en dan onderbroken door tekstpancartes met vragen: citaten uit de inquisitieprocessen die in de 15de eeuw tegen Jeanne d\u0026rsquo;Arc werden gevoerd.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHet identificatieproces, waar je als kijker spontaan toe neigt, loopt vast. In de uitgepuurde setting, de uiterste eenvoud van de pose val je terug op datgene wat je even was vergeten: iemand heeft een jonge actrice gevraagd, te doen alsof\u0026hellip; In het boek, de neerslag van Torfs\u0026rsquo; vooronderzoek, verschijnt Jeanne als het steeds wijkende middelpunt van een onontwarbare kluwen van verhalen, getuigenissen en tendentieuze interpretaties waar nooit een \u0026lsquo;waarheid\u0026rsquo; uit te destilleren valt. \u003cem\u003eDu Mentir-Faux\u003c/em\u003e articuleert enkele thema\u0026rsquo;s die ook elders in Torfs\u0026rsquo; \u0026oelig;uvre herhaaldelijk aan bod komen: de relatie tussen tekst en beeld, of tussen lezen en verbeelden, de problematiek van het portret (is het mogelijk in het portret een \u0026lsquo;waarheid\u0026rsquo; over de geportretteerde te vatten?) en \u0026ndash; ruimer \u0026ndash; de spanning tussen fictie en realiteit. (bron: Catherine Robbrechts)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":269,"name":"Ana Torfs","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}