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Ritsaert Ten Cate The multi-disciplinary practice of Ritsaert ten Cate combines assemblage, photography and ready-made images or objects to dissect conflicts, wars, genocides, and violent events, allowing the spectator to pause in the presence of important events in recent history. In many of his works there are explicit references to catastrophe and human suffering, often culled from highly familiar and poignant news images from newspapers and other media. His work, however, does not only function as a critique on mindless violence and media representations of it, but is most interested in how we consume mediated accounts or images of current events, how we react to them as human beings. All his installations contain both familiar images, ready made objects imbued with symbolic value, personal documents, kitsch memorabilia and a characteristic child-like playfulness combined with adult insight and critique. His practice conflates fact and fiction, the real and the constructed, and his often humorous and deliberately ridiculous groupings of heterogeneous objects, function above all as a theatrical ode to the absurdity of violence and conflict.
"The past isn't dead; it isn't even past." (Faulkner)
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