EYE/VIEW x REX Box November

11–30 November 2022, daily, 13:30 to 24:00

Kassenhaus des Kino REX Bern, Schwanengasse 9, 3011 Bern.

November 2022

Artists: Ximena Fargas, Anette C. Halm, Hanne Jiménez Turcott, Peter Weibel (Courtesy ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe).

Curated by Xavier Kat.

14.11. at 18:30

Vernissage with an introduction by Xavier Kat

The November REX Box programme has been put together by Xavier Kat. Xavier is a photographer and filmmaker from Oaxaca, Mexico and works at the Tepeyac Human Rights Center, where he is involved with the Land Defense Network. He first joined Videocity as a fellow. Since 2021, he has organised exhibitions and workshops for Videocity in Mexico. For his selection of videos, he was guided by the following question: How do we engage with our memory or our remembrance? Xavier writes:

“An image transits our inner world, as a butterfly it flutters around and affects multiple zones; the image and its effects are amplified by the attention given to it. Sometimes it seems it goes beyond our inner world; causing sensations to appear, faintly, like ghosts that want to return, impressions that haunt and trigger desires wanting to be consumed. Possessed, we are transported to a different moment, another time, a distant land and a distant body. An inner duality without any separation. Distance becomes memory.”