Universal Tongue
Anouk Kruithof
Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris
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- Title
- Universal Tongue
- Gallery
- Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 4 h
- Format & Technical
HD, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
- Edit
- Sound
In the large-scale research project "Universal Tongue" (2018 - 2021), the Dutch artist Anouk Kruithof analyzes dance as a global cultural phenomenon, through the exploration of videos and clips found on the internet.
With her team of fifty-two researchers – assistants, she has been able to compile 8,800 films representing the diversity of cultures through dance. The ongoing loop of moving image erases typical categories of the world order, such as country, continent or culture. Instead, it looks at our era of fluidity, hybridity, and non-stop connectedness, respecting the value of our historical backgrounds, cultural differences, and individuality. 3 The installation version of the work, consisting of 8 four-hour videos projected simultaneously, has been shown around the world and recently at Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland. At Loop Art Fair we present the new four-hour monoband video Universal Tongue.
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Born 1981 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Anouk Kruithof, lives and works between Brussels Belgium, the Netherlands and her wooden house in the Amazon Rainforest in Botopasi Suriname. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as: Musuem Tinguely Basel, MoMA New York and MoMA San Fransisco, Museum Folkwang Essen, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Museum Voorlinden Wassenaar, FOAM Amsterdam, Kunst Haus Wien Vienna, VOO?UIT Ghent, MBAL Le Locle Switzerland, The Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen China; Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, Russia.
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Galerie Valeria Cetraro
- Address
- 16 Rue Caffarelli, 75003, Paris, France
- Phone
- +33 (0)9 82 61 61 11
- info@galerievaleriacetraro.com
- Website
- www.galerievaleriacetraro.com
The Valeria Cetraro Gallery is representing artists whose practices are at a crossroads of various media. The research lines that the gallery has defined drive the choices of a program that aims to bring together all different players of the art world, artists as well as art critics and collectors, on selected topics chosen to be developed in the long term. Since its start the gallery organises talks in parallel to its exhibitions, exploring the cultural and theoretical issues of our time. The gallery offers solo exhibitions as well as at least the group exhibitions, some of them are developed as a long-lasting project, spanning several years. Founded in 2014, the Valeria Cetraro Gallery took the name of its founder in 2019 and moved to a new exhibition space on Rue Cafarelli (Paris, 3rd). The gallery is part of the CPGA (Art Gallery Professional Comity) and PGMAP (Paris Gallery MAP).