For more than three decades, Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez has created video works that examin how technology has shaped our collective imagination. Through an archaeological dig into media, he uncovers our hypermediated present: what happens to our sense of reality when history, memory and even dreams, are filtered through global technocracy.

This retrospective presents key works from Grimonprez's practice, including feature films such as dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and early short films such as kiss-o-drome or Looking for Alfred. Working with found footage from a wide range of sources such as news broadcasts, Hollywood films and home movies, he has constructed montages and juxtapositions that revael unexpected connections between jazz and Cold War coups, TV dinners and geopolitics, hijackings and media spectacles. Grimonprez demonstrates how paranoia has become normalized, how we've become avid consumers of fear, and why it's easier to imagine apocalypse than political transformation.

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