The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

Ria Pacquée

© Ria Pacquée
Hats, 2011-2019
Projection , 00:04:18
Digital slideshow

In her later works, the artist concentrates on exploring public spaces, recording events with a camera from a particular point of view. She has developed her interests in rituals and the metaphysics of religious experience, anonymity, wandering around the city. Archiving sounds and images are also important methodologies in her work. The video Hats is part of the artist’s archival practice of wandering through different places, often geographically distant, recording various headgear; their cultural specifics, styles and colours. Hats is a specific image archive, an attempt to create a typographic study, a record of a journey, a registration made from a specific perspective focused on the movement of objects and forms.