Video installation, 2006, at M HKA Antwerpen 2007 “Lonely at the Top”, curators Dieter Roestraete & Grant Watson. The title of Marie Julia Bollansée’s work refers to an old Etruscan city near Rome. Tarquinia was the most important of the twelve cities of the Etruscan League and is now an archaeological site primarily known for its necropolis – an underground cemetery containing more than six thousand tombs, many of which are decorated with splendid colourful murals. However, of this partially macabre history hardly a trace can be found in Bollansée’s “Tarquinia”, a three-part projection in which a festively laid table with an ever changing line-up of guests is the central point – a picture which is loosely based on Tarquinia’s ancient wall paintings. Although associations with the iconographic tradition of the Last Supper are brought to mind, “Tarquinia” definitely plays on a different emotional register – that of a festive beginning rather than that of a majestic fatal ending.
Anaïs Bollansée
Zelia Eylenbosch
Erna De Schutter
Eric Joris
Pablo Bollansée
Laurens Dierickx
Rina Vets
Ludwig Lemaire
Maria Hendricks
Mon De Schutter
Dwaro De Bruyne
Jef Diericks
Lisbeth Wolfs
Anneke Rombaut
Jan Storms
Peter de Maeyer
Julia Poniwierski
Inge Grognard
Anke Schäfer
Marie Julia Bollansée
Jo Crepain
Leo Copers
Jim Bollansée
Olmo Claessens
Joëlle Meerbergen
Sven Van Kuijk
Martine Kint
Peter Willaeys
Arthur De Maeyer
Bea Matthijs
Riet Storms
Piet Pollet
Karel Bollansée
Griet Verbeke