Dusk

Minne Kersten received a grant to develop new work. Dusk is a new video installation around the motif of ghosts and moths. She explores how the figure of the ghost is connected to the origins of film techniques and will work with moths to understand the relationship between light, visibility and appearances. She will explore these themes in her approach to sound editing, set design and mise-en-scène, to offer an alternative perspective on darkness and its complexity. This project will culminate in a new video installation that looks at the relationship between ghosts and architecture and human feelings within them, drawing on the surrealist legacy of psycho-geography.

Minne was born in the Netherlands and lives and works in Amsterdam. She works between video installation, architectural environments and paintings to create overarching narratives that reference literature, cinema and mythology. She stages situations in self-made film sets that undergo chaos, decay or deconstruction. Through her architectural environments, she speculates how buildings can be receptive to narratives and traumas. She examines the traces of events left behind and questions them as witnesses to private stories held by the walls that surround human life. She often introduces alienated elements into familiar environments to explore themes of lack of control and to explore three-dimensional space as a representation of the unstable mind.