White Balance (to think is to forget differences)

François Bucher

Verenigde Staten 2002, 32 minuten

White Balance (to think is to forget differences) is een poging om de geografie van macht bloot te leggen: de grenzen van privileges die verband houden met raciale stereotypen en de verborgen notie van witheid. De film benadert deze problemen vanuit verschillende invalshoeken en creëert betekeniskortsluitingen, die worden opgeroepen door onwaarschijnlijke audiovisuele overeenkomsten. Media- en internetbeelden worden vermengd met beeldmateriaal dat voor en na de aanslagen van 9/11 in het centrum van Manhattan is opgenomen. In zijn video-essay kiest François Bucher voor een poëtische taal die mensen aan het denken wil zetten, door zich te concentreren op de kortstondige openingen in de audiovisuele ervaring.

François Bucher

― Kunstenaar

François Bucher (Colombia) is an artist and writer from Cali, Colombia. His research spans a wide range of interests, focusing – as of late – on multi-dimensional fields and other tropes from shamanism and science fiction, such as time “travel”. He contends that trauma acts as a portal through time, both at a collective and an individual level. Bucher’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennial, Marrakech Biennale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Bienal de Cartagena, Bienal de Cuenca, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve, Berlin Documentary Film Forum, Jeu de Paume, Prague Biennial, Tate Britain, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. His writings have been published in the Journal of Visual Culture, Documenta Magazine, E-Flux Journal, and Valdez. He holds a Master’s degree in film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A book on his work from 1999 to 2016, written by Claudia Salamanca and titled The Catastrophe of the Present, was published in 2016. His studio is in Mexico.

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