Disclaimer
Artwork from the VIERNULVIER Collection
Artist: Wouter Huis | (NL) | 2021
In 2011, Dutch artist Wouter Huis participated in ‘Summercamp Electrified’, a project by Timelab and VIERNULVIER Arts Centre that explored how art could play an inspiring role in reclaiming (parts of) the public space.
Huis’s work ‘Disclaimer’ refers to the message often seen in film credits that any resemblance between reality and what is seen in the film is purely coincidental. By engraving the text into a marble slab and hanging it in the public space, Huis adds an extra dimension to what happens on the street.
The work also bridges the gap to a festival that took place concurrently with Film Fest Gent at De Vooruit from 2006 to 2012. Almost Cinema challenged visitors to look at cinema from a different perspective. In addition to its film screenings and theatre productions, at the festival’s core was a surprising art trail that snaked through the building. In 2011, ‘Disclaimer’ was part of this exhibition.
The following year, in 2012, Huis’s ‘Performance #1’ was also featured at the festival. For this work, the audience was invited to sit on chairs in an empty garage. The performance began as soon as the garage door was opened and spectators got a view of Ghent’s quiet and ‘unspectacular’ Savaanstraat, which had been transformed into a cinema screen.