THE CABINET (2000)
Video-installation (Betacam SP), color,12 min (loop)

“A plasma screen is hanging in the hallway with a picture of a furnished office. A quite banal image, as a framed version of a photo from an advertising brochure for office furniture in four color print that every independent weekly receives in his post box. (…) This still life of Frank Theys presents itself also more as a picture than a video. (…) It is a work that you pass by. But as soon as you stay still, or when you pass it several times, you see that the picture never stays the same. An advertising brochure you never read from the beginning till the end either. Every time you leaf through it, you see other versions of similar interiors. (…) With this work Theys succeeds to show us how those – hardly – different pictures we weekly receive in our post box, get mixed in our brains.”
Pieter Van Bogaert, De Financieel-Economische Tijd, woensdag 20 december 2000
 
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