Ever since its inception, film has influenced our thinking about what the world is, and what it can be. As a mass medium that directly addresses human emotions, it affects collective experiences to the extent that films can be regarded not only against the background of reality, but can actually influence our view of it.
The thematic exhibition REAL EMOTIONS: THINKING IN FILM opens next Saturday at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Devoted to affects and emotions in the moving image, the show explores the question of how films transmit emotions and generate an authenticity at which the individual and collective experiences collide.
With works by Chantal Akerman, Ed Atkins and Simon Martin, Sue de Beer, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Loretta Fahrenholz, Christian Jankowski, Jesper Just, Peter Roehr, Roee Rosen, John Smith, and Mark Wallinger.
Read more about the exhibition here.
REAL EMOTIONS: THINKING IN FILM
Opening: 22.2.14, 17–22 h
Dates: 23. 2.– 27. 4. 14
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststr. 69, 10117 Berlin
Photo: Ed Atkins and Simon Martin, UNTITLED (STRAWBERRY POISON DART FROG: DEMUXED), 2011, film still, courtesy the artists, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Cabinet Gallery London, and MOT International
