on Chantal Akerman at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
Travel is a recurring motif in Chantal Akerman’s work, as is the tension between proximity and distance. This is evident not just in the works documenting her many journeys, but also in her depiction of her close but complicated relationship with her mother, whose experiences of trauma and displacement ultimately remained beyond the artist’s reach. A retrospective focusing on this thematic thread in Akerman’s work opened in Brussels last year before moving to Paris. Rainer Bellenbaum recently visited Lisbon to view the exhibition’s final leg, which invites visitors to take a tour of Akerman’s life and pioneering practice through a range of works and archival materials.
aahttps://www.textezurkunst.de/de/articles/memory-transfers-and-beyond-silence/
Rainer Bellenbaum 