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Alexandra Crouwers, The White Hide [III], 2013
Alexandra Crouwers
Alexandra Crouwer's 'cross-media' works frequently combine apocalyptic, mythological and romantic imagery, using high end visual effects to create animated films which sit somewhere between real and imagined spaces, addressing the multiple landscapes – both actual and digital – that we now navigate. For The Big M, Crouwer produced The White Hide [III] (2013), which depicts a slow pan through a post-apocalyptic, surreal landscape, from sunrise to sunset; the scene could very well be set on a planet which rotates around its axis in only 5 minutes. Hologram-like elements pop up and disappear again, together with gas-outbursts and volcano eruptions. The subtle soundtrack, comprised of wind, bells and the sound of thunder or explosions, adds to the otherworldly atmosphere.
The White Hide [III] features in On the Precipice, which was presented Berwick-upon-Tweed during Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival from 27th-28th September 2013. On the Precipice was devised and developed by North East based, Canadian-born artist, Kelly Richardson, and features work by Richardson herself, Gordon Cheung (UK), Alexandra Crouwers (The Netherlands/Belgium), Jenn E Norton (Canada), Jillian McDonald (Canada/USA), Emily Richardson (UK) and Brigitte Zieger (Germany/France). On the Precipice examined the role human history has played in the development and arguable decline of our global environment. The programme was screened on three screens positioned inside The Big M, creating an immersive experience which explores our relationship with various contemporary landscapes.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alexandra Crouwers (NL, 1974) studied painting at the Academy of Arts and Design in Den Bosch, installation art at the post-graduate Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and Film & Visual Culture at the university of Antwerp. Since 2019, she’s working on a four year phd in art in animation trajectory (www.luca-arts.be/en/nieuws/through-which-seen-dioramas-and-appeal-unreal-alexandra-crouwers) at Leuven University/LUCA School of Arts Brussels.
Crouwers’ works arise in the digital realm. Using a combination of 3D animation, video post production and still images, she builds virtual sets, that are used in (multiscreen) films, works on paper, woven tapestries, and wallpaper. Recurrent themes are the perception of time, and artificial nature.
Her animations were screened at festivals such as Uppsala Short Film Festival, Transmediale in Berlin, Microwave in Hong Kong and the Portable Film Festival in Sidney and Melbourne, Australia. Exhibitions include ‘Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art’ at S.M.A.K. in Ghent (B), ‘Visions Fugitives’, Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing (F), ‘Belgian (p)Art’ in De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) and Art Brussels.
The White Hide [III] features in On the Precipice, which was presented Berwick-upon-Tweed during Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival from 27th-28th September 2013. On the Precipice was devised and developed by North East based, Canadian-born artist, Kelly Richardson, and features work by Richardson herself, Gordon Cheung (UK), Alexandra Crouwers (The Netherlands/Belgium), Jenn E Norton (Canada), Jillian McDonald (Canada/USA), Emily Richardson (UK) and Brigitte Zieger (Germany/France). On the Precipice examined the role human history has played in the development and arguable decline of our global environment. The programme was screened on three screens positioned inside The Big M, creating an immersive experience which explores our relationship with various contemporary landscapes.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alexandra Crouwers (NL, 1974) studied painting at the Academy of Arts and Design in Den Bosch, installation art at the post-graduate Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and Film & Visual Culture at the university of Antwerp. Since 2019, she’s working on a four year phd in art in animation trajectory (www.luca-arts.be/en/nieuws/through-which-seen-dioramas-and-appeal-unreal-alexandra-crouwers) at Leuven University/LUCA School of Arts Brussels.
Crouwers’ works arise in the digital realm. Using a combination of 3D animation, video post production and still images, she builds virtual sets, that are used in (multiscreen) films, works on paper, woven tapestries, and wallpaper. Recurrent themes are the perception of time, and artificial nature.
Her animations were screened at festivals such as Uppsala Short Film Festival, Transmediale in Berlin, Microwave in Hong Kong and the Portable Film Festival in Sidney and Melbourne, Australia. Exhibitions include ‘Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art’ at S.M.A.K. in Ghent (B), ‘Visions Fugitives’, Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing (F), ‘Belgian (p)Art’ in De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) and Art Brussels.