Reality or Not
2023
Production still made with IncWorks
© Cécile B. Evans
Courtesy of the artist
CÉCILE B. EVANS
Reality or Not
Reality or Not is a video installation telling the story of a group of students from a high school located in the northern suburbs of Paris who take part in a radical experiment aimed at appropriating the reality that surrounds them and modifying it independently. It is the latest chapter in a line of research that Evans has been working on since the beginning of his career. With the aim of transforming the very concept of reality in a society increasingly crowded with alternative digital worlds, Reality or Not calls into question the possibility of distinguishing between the real and the virtual in the contemporary world and the psychological and cognitive repercussions of this mix.
Location
Musei Civici Bologna
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Via Don Giovanni Minzoni, 14
OPENING HOURS
TUESDAY–SUNDAY, 10AM–7PM
BIOGRAPHY
Cécile B. Evans is an American-Belgian artist living and working in La Plaine Saint Denis (FR). Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. They have previously realized new commissions at Tate Liverpool (UK), Tramway (UK), Serpentine Galleries (UK), Castello di Rivoli (IT), Museum Abteiberg (DE), and Centre Pompidou (FR) and exhibited work at Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Haus der Kunst (DE), Renaissance Society Chicago (US), Mito Art Tower (JP) amongst others. Evans’ films have been screened in festivals such as the New York Film Festival and Rotterdam International. Evans’ work is held in public collections such as MoMA NY (US), the Whitney Museum (US), Centre Pompidou (FR), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK), and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (SK).
Reality or Not
2023
Production still made with IncWorks
© Cécile B. Evans
Courtesy of the artist
Location
Musei Civici Bologna
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Via Don Giovanni Minzoni, 14
OPENING HOURS
TUESDAY–SUNDAY, 10AM–7PM
One of the leading modern and contemporary art museums in Italy, MAMbo houses the largest public collection of works by Giorgio Morandi as well as a collection of artistic heritage spanning the history of Italian art from the latter half of the nineteenth centrury to the present in nine themed sections. It offers temporary exhibitions dedicated to internationally known artists and movements.
