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This work was shown at the exhibition LOST FORMAT
a group exhibition curated by Cis Bierinckx in Be-Part, Waregem. The exhibition includes work from Johan Van Geluwe, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Fernando Ortega, Pierre Bismuth and Jonathan Monk.


BACK <from> HOME tells the story of Ann de Frenne. She grew up around the following three places in her town (Waregem): A big house at a busy road, de town square and the forest where her grandmother used to live. The piece is a testament to a personal connection with a town and the feeling of ambivalence that comes with this.

This piece is a tribute to my friend Ann de Frenne and her mother. BACK <from> HOME was a special production because it brought them both together in an extraordinary way.

"I start from the duality of feeling at home. In Belgium, the countryside is no longer rural, as we know it from other European areas. It is at the same time extremely distant en yet very close to the busy excitement of a capitalist world. Often this results in a conflict between oneself and one's background. Like the feeling of always waking up in a hotelroom in a strange metropolis. You recognize the signs (a hotel, a bed, a bathroom, a receptiondesk, and outside you hear the constant murmur of the city. An unrecognizable chaos that you don't know how to handle. It sends us off into the great unknown with a certain melancholy. I will consider Waregem with this duality in mind. Waregem, the story of my friend Anne de Frenne, and the story that unfolds around her. A story of neverending travels."

Credits:
Concept en regie: Els Opsomer
Muziek: Stefaan Quix
Stemmen: El Hadj Niang, Oumi Niang
Camera: Els Opsomer
Montage: Geoffroy de Volder, Els Opsomer
Geluidsmixage: Ludo Engels
Geluidsopname: Michel Huon
Diamontage: Ludo Engels
Productie: BE-PART, Els Opsomer

Met uitzonderlijke dank aan:
Greta Verbauwenhede, Ann De Frenne, Milo Meijer, Etienne De Frenne, Wim Verschaeve, Olivier Standaert, Geoffroy De Volder, Marleen Opsomer, Patrick Ronse, Cis Bierinckx

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2008
Het Gemak, Den Haag, The Netherlands

2007
Lost Format, Be-part, Waregem, Belgium