Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat

Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat are members of the artist-run collective Messidor. They are Brussels-based artists working in the audio-visual field and teaching at Erg, Brussels. Their practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image. They are interested in the spatial and durational potentialities in the reading of still and moving images, the relations between spectatorship and history, the temporality of narratives and memory, and the material surfaces of image production. Their works have been shown in duo exhibitions in Kunsthalle Basel (CH), Argos (BE) and CAC Delme (FR); at group exhibitions in Argos, Brussels (BE); Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (DE); Portikus, Frankfurt (DE); Museumcultuur Strombeek (BE); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (DE) Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR) and STUK, Leuven (BE) and in film festivals such as EMAF, Osnabrück (DE); Atonal, Berlin (DE); Doclisboa (PT); Underdox Munich (DE); Oberhausen Film Festival, (DE); Les Rencontres International, Paris and Berlin; IDFA, Amsterdam (NL); New Horizons, Wroclaw (PL); Oberhausen Film Festival, (DE); Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, (DE); Rotterdam Film Festival, (NL); Media City, Windsor, (CA); Images, Toronto (CA); Planstik, Dublin (IE); November Film Festival, London (UK); Visite, Antwerp (BE); Bratislava Film Festival (SK); 25FPS Zagreb (HR).