Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost’s work reflects on the grammar of cinema, the human condition in our collective film memory and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. His films provoke both recognition and alienation, and succeed in catching our expectations in an unraveling game of mystery and abstraction. With manipulations of time, codes and form, cinematographic and narrative language is analyzed, accents are shifted and new stories are told.
Nicolas Provost (born in Ronse, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels following 10 years in Norway. His films have been exhibited worldwide and have earned awards and screenings at prestigious festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, San Sebastian Film Festival and Locarno Film Festival. Solo exhibitions include The Seattle Art Museum; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France; Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; and Haunch of Venison, London. His award-winning first feature film The Invader had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2011.
Nicolas Provost, Stardust, 2010, Video projection with sound, 240 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Suspension, 2007, Video projection with sound, 48 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Long Live the New Flesh, 2009, Video projection with sound. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Plot Point, 2007, Video projection with sound, 180 in
Nicolas Provost, Moving Stories, 2011, Video projection with sound, 84 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Residents from Belgium
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Wan-Jen Chen
Wan-Jen Chen makes animated videos, which blur the line between reality and artifice. These images directly touch upon the discrepancy between authenticity and depiction. The intentionally ordinary scenes are pieced together to reinterpret lost memories and forgotten experiences.
Wan-Jen Chen (born 1982 Taiwan) graduated from the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2005 and studied at the National Graduate School of Art & Technology, The Taipei National University of Arts until 2012. Recent solo shows include: To Hell with Your Future, IT PARK ,Taipei and The Extraordinary Ordinary, VT Artsalon, Taipei. Group exhibitions include: The First “CAFAM · Future” Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; The 2012 Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Stand-In Techniques- New Taiwanese video Style, Gallery 456, New York; The 7th Busan International Video Festival; Changwon 2010 Asia Art Festival-THE FANTASTIC GARDEN, and Taiwanpics.doc, Ecole Nationale Supériere des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Wan-Jen Chen, The Unconcious Voyage, 2008, 3-channel video installation, color, without sound, 3 min
Wan-Jen Chen, You Are my Only Exception, 2011, Single-channel video, color, without sound, 2 min. 40 sec
Wan-Jen Chen, The Big Road, 2011, 2-channel video, color, without sound, 5 min. 55 sec
Wan-Jen Chen, To Hell With Your Future, 2011, Single-channel video , color, sound, 2 min
Wan-Jen Chen, Pluto's Tears, 2011, Single-channel video, color, sound, 1 min. 2 sec
Past Resident2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Ambie Abaño
Ambie Abaño’s shift from painting to printmaking brought her to an exploration of the medium as she investigates portraiture in relation to both material and process. From two-dimensional prints, her experimental works led to the creation of portraits and figures in sculpture, mixed media works, and installations, always with an element of traditional printmaking processes.
Ambie Abaño (born Manila 1967) abandoned the practice of architecture in favor of being a visual artist. She exhibits widely in the Philippines and across Asia. Abaño is a faculty member at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. For the past six years, she served as president of the Philippine Association of Printmakers and remains active in their training program. Her solo exhibitions include: SurFACE (2011); Sanctuaire des memoires (2012) at the Alliance Francaise de Manille, and TransFIGURATION at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2006). She participated in A/P: Analog Playground, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; The Speaking House, Kerala, India (2012); Asian International Art Exhibition (2007-2011), and Open Studios at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2011).
Ambie Abaño, Trapped, 2009, Stuffed prints on textile, 24 × 24 × 24 in. (60.96 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm)
Ambie Abaño, Prayer, 2009, Installation with woodcut on textile and plastic
Ambie Abaño, Self Awareness, 2011, Oil painting and woodcut on phillippine mahogany, 60 × 72 in. (152.4 × 182.88 cm)
Ambie Abaño, Diaries, 2010, Woodcut on recycled wood carved into books
