Biografia
Pieter Geenen (°1979) lives and works in Brussels. In his audiovisual productions he questions the landscape as a bearer of meaning. Geenen is interested in the suggestive and evocative qualities of the landscape in different geo-political and geo-social realities. How does man relate to the landscape? How do we shape landscape, what traces do we leave, and what do we experience in confrontation with a landscape? In his work the image manifests itself slowly, exploring the subtle and hidden characteristics of things. Listening and watching becomes intense, intimate, alienative, contemplative and almost tangible in the context of an undisturbed stillness.
His work has been presented among others at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Argos Centre for Art and Media (Brussels, BE), New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, VIDEOEX (Zürich), Images Festival (Toronto), EMAF (Osnabrück, DE), Media City Festival (Windsor, CA), EXiS Festival (Seoul, KR), FID Marseille (FR), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Art Brussels, Art Rotterdam, Museum of Ixelles (Brussels), at the Liège Biennial 2010 (BE), and at the parallel events of the Venice Biennial 2009 (IT) and Manifesta9 (BE).
