Work in motion

The MAST Foundation presents an exhibition entirely dedicated to the moving image with videos and installations about the transformations in the world of labour and industry.

If the history of industry and labour has been filtered until now through the photographic medium, in this show curated by Urs Stahel, videos will provide a new visual representation. Through the filmed interpretation of reality, the eye of the video camera gives evidence of the mutability of a world that is undergoing rapid transformations, describing changes, evolutions and breaking points in a direct and engaged manner.

Top: Yuri Ancarani, Il Capo, 2010. Single channel video, 15’, MAST Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery ZERO, Milano. Above: Ad Nuis, Oil & Paradise, 2013. 2 channel video, 30’ circa Courtesy of the artist and Paradox

Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, Labor in a Single Shot. 90 films about labour, taken in a single shot in 15 cities around the globe, 1’ circa. Máximo Ciambella, Mate and Leather, 2013 (Buenos Aires) Courtesy of Antje Ehmann, Berlin

Armin Linke, Flocking, 2008. Single channel video, 13’26”

Chen Chieh-jen, Factory, 2003. Single channel video, 31’9”. Courtesy the artist

The videos in the exhibition develop powerful images of different atmospheres in which work or negotiations take place, from the manual activities of an individual person to mass production, from human to robotic, from energy to high-tech production, from product development to contractual negotiations, from the legal issues through to the structural, existential problems in the financial system.

Ad Nuis, Oil & Paradise, 2013. 2 channel video, 30’ circa Courtesy of the artist and Paradox — Ad Nuis, *Oil & Paradise*, 2013. 2 channel video, 30’ circa Courtesy of the artist and Paradox

As Urs Stahel explains, “We live in times of shifting reality, which we perceive as a set of parallel planes that slip beside, follow and overlap one another. The exhibition provides a visual representation of this by grouping the videos together into small galaxies where each work has its autonomous value but finds its significance above all in relation to the others becoming, in turn, a comment, a critique or a tacit reply. These moving images, so intense and touching, so powerful and variegated, convey in a variety of narratives and languages the evolution of the world of labour and of our lives”.

Chen Chieh-jen, Factory, 2003. Single channel video, 31’9”. Courtesy the artist — Chen Chieh-jen, *Factory*, 2003. Single channel video, 31’9”. Courtesy the artist

until 17 April 2017
Work in motion
curated by Urs Stahel
MAST
via Speranza 42, Bologne

Work in motion

The MAST Foundation presents an exhibition entirely dedicated to the moving image with videos and installations about the transformations in the world of labour and industry.

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