Flatform. Concert for Films and Works
30.04.2026. – 28.06.2026
Flatform. Concert for Films and Works is the title of Flatform’s retrospective exhibition, which spans twenty years of activity.
The title, emblematic of Flatform’s distinctive approach, encapsulates within the very concept of “concertation” terms such as assembly, combination, and blending of multiple elements that, by their nature, origin, or medium, may appear to be in opposition.
Videos and artworks belong to two independent worlds: the former do not possess an intrinsic physicality, while the latter do.
Flatform’s starting point is always video, but the physical works—whether paintings or sculptures—are its material counterpart, bridging the gap from the intangibility of moving images to matter and space. In this process, other qualities emerge and take root.
The exhibition thus presents a series of video works in dialogue with the physical works connected to them.
Thus, the video A place to come extends and finds further meaning in the glass sculpture 7 minutes of video in 200 kilograms of crystal and furthermore, in the work Corridor, the indistinctness and flattening—as visual processes typical of fog, a constitutive element of the video—resonate in the monochrome paintings.
Furthermore, the video Cannot be anything against the wind, in its installation presented at the PSA, spatializes and distributes its audio—composed solely of different types of wind—across four analog tape recorders which, as the tape rewinds, also produce an additional sound of wind not heard in the video. Meanwhile, the corresponding series of drawings One Second of Wind unfolds, in a different temporal dimension, the succession of 25 frames per second that constitute the video’s unit of time.
History of a Tree is a video/portrait of a monumental Walloon oak. Its storyboard, engraved on oak parquet, reexamines the very nature of the video medium by creating a loop between writing, image, and material.
In the installation of the video Quantum, two walls facing each other present a contrast: on one, the video itself, in which light is a fundamental element, and on the other, its luminous score created through the use of lamps synchronized with the lights within the video.
In this concept of interplay between different works, three other individual videos are setted up in an anamorphic order so that, when viewed from a specific vantage point, they appear as a single video.
