Beast and Feast
28-30 nov 2024
Opening hours: 7:30pm - 10:30pm during the show
Contact & reservation: janknops@atelierarthurrogiers.be
Address: Keizer Karelstraat 103 - 1000 Brussels
Metro: 1 en 5 (Schuman)
Bus: 28 - 61 (Ardense Jagers) 64 (Luther)
60 - 63 (Ambiorix)
Beast and Feast, 25 min 2023
TEASER 1min: https://vimeo.com/928720739
In the backdrop of mounted police rallies, a central protagonist knits together a narrative; a female police officer hunting for a perfect police horse. Her psychological torment and idealization of this perfect horse are then made terrifyingly real as she eventually starts a transformation into the horse she desires. Fiction scenes are mixed up with archive footage from recent riots and turbulent situations where police horses are utilized as weapons to engage in crowd control.
LUCKY / Let’s run, 11 min, 2019
A documentary that follows children and mothers on a guided tour, a bus trip behind the stable arena while their fathers and husbands bet on horses. On the guided tour, we learned; how to feed a horse a carrot; different shoe sizes for racing horses, and that the flesh of the horse becomes food to lions when the horse is too tired to run. The trip was booked by the communication department at Let’s Run Park Seoul after many attempts and requests to film inside the betting arena.
Josefin Arnell (1984 Sweden) is based in Amsterdam.
The work by Josefin Arnell defines a loaded visual language combining anger, desire, disgust and pleasure. Her film work extends to performance, installation, objects, poetry or drawings that present complex realities, socially marginalized characters and absurd fictionalization. Through storytelling loosely narratives are centered around characters that try to navigate in contemporary infrastructures with impossible demands. She is interested in how storytelling and filmmaking can be used as a form of resistance and as socio-political activity. With humor she addresses how complex power structures affect the individual such as class issues and group dynamics.
In 2015 and 2016 she participated in the residency program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. In 2018 she won the Theodora Niemeijer Prijs for emerging female artists in the Netherlands. In 2023 she was nominated for the art prize Prix de Rome Netherlands with a presentation at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Places where her work has been shown include: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; WIELS, Brussels; Cell Project Space, London; Index, Stockholm; UKS, Oslo; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Frans Hals Museum, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Haarlem; Athens Biennale; Moscow International Biennale for Young Art; Auto Italia, London; Kunsthalle Münster, Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin and IDFA International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam.