[BE] ~ 1979

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“Move in a frame” ~ 2008

Software, computer, camera, LCD screen, wood case

Courtesy IMAL, Brussels

Move in a frame questions the mirror, but through space and time. A camera is connected to a computer and the screen is divided in a grid of 4×4 cells. Each of them captures its own movement with his own temporality and memory, producing an asynchronous rendering of the space and the visitors in front of it. Move in a framecould be seen as a game or as a generative painting where moving intentionally or walking by without paying attention produces the same reaction of the system, being recorded and added to the endless loops. “Move in a frame” is also a contemporary reference to David Hockney’s composite polaroids considered as time-space captures of a subject.

Yacine produces his own installations but collaborates on a regular basis with different artists, e.g. experimental filmmaker Pascal Baes, musician-sculptor Frédéric Marbaix, or videomaker Tom Heene. Both his personal and collaborative works have been shown widely: Viper (Basel), eArts (Shanghai), File (Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro), Seoul Media Arts Biennale, Vooruit (Ghent), Temps d’Images (Montréal).