Dries Verhoeven’s theatrical world: based on spectators’ experience
https://www.unlimitedrag.com/art-unlimited published on ART UNLIMITED 42 (September 2017) https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9c95f9_3a8ff8983dc849d09eb1d6201e45eaf6.pdf I was let into a room, all alone. One of the walls of the room, no larger than the living room of a house, was completely covered by an image. It was a scenery from Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti: taken from a hilly area, in the foreground a mud puddle with lots of garbage, just behind it a jerry-built house with other jerry-built houses in the background and behind them all low hills and the sky; a time of twilight. While I could not figure out if the image was moving or not, a shirtless black man sitting on the edge of the puddle stood up and approached me. First, he stared at me, then began to mirror my moves, my poses, my positions in the room. I was a little bit nervous as I wondered how the man in the picture could see me and imitate me. I was surprised to realize that the moving pictur...