One song from Above and Below

Miet Warlop exorcises her personal grief and pain by means of a song performed on repeat by a group of twelve musicians who join in a ritual where memory integrates into routine through repetition: gestures are reproduced again and again, much like our most painful memories, leading nowhere. These gymnastic exercises, shot from above, emulate the contemporary representation of sporting events in broadcasts and video games, in which the human body is objectified as a component that competes in and monetises the sporting field it inhabits.
 

Miet Warlop
 

Miet Warlop (1978) is a Belgian visual artist born in Torhout. She lives and works between Ghent and Brussels. Miet Warlop holds a Master's degree in Visual Arts from KASK, Ghent. For her graduation project Huilend Hert, Aangeschoten Wild, a "inhabited installation composed of six tableaux vivants and a subject moving by dragging itself," she won the Franciscus Pycke Jury Award and the Young Theatrical Works Residency Award in 2004.

In addition to her stage work for theaters, Miet Warlop has created and presented an ever-expanding cycle of visual art performances, interventions, and live installations. Nervous Pictures was presented in 2017 at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Performatik (Brussels), among others.