Marie José Burki's Temporal Explorations at MAC's

Marie José Burki's solo exhibition at MAC's in Le Grand Hornu, Belgium, from November 30, 2003 to February 29, 2004, expands on her earlier group show presence with a larger-scale survey of her recent work. The Swiss-born, Brussels-based artist (b. 1961) focuses on time rather than memory, capturing everyday life in video installations that resist narrative. Works like 'Horizon of a World' (2003) present extended sequences without clear conclusions, while 'A Dog in my Mind' (1997) features five simultaneous projections on screens and walls covered with newspaper pages, enveloping viewers in a structural labyrinth. Her new piece 'De nos jours' introduces a subtle stylistic shift, using oblique panels to fragment vertical images of a summer day in a park, exploring slippage and fragmentation. The exhibition also includes a concurrent show at Galerie Baronian-Francey in Brussels through March 20, 2004. A catalog in the form of an 'artist's box' containing four publications accompanies the exhibition.