IAN PAGE, Untitled, 2022
Ian Page is looking for what the outside world looks like in relation to the inside. At his final presentation at the Rijksakademie in 2021, he showed a film screen with the Colosseum in Rome painted on it. Behind the screen was a lounge room with sofa and a film he made in a California training camp where American soldiers were being trained to fight in Iraq. A staged detonation of a car bomb, groaning wounded and shooting soldiers made the footage very realistic until everyone stood up as if by magic and it was clear that the 'real' was not real.
In the exhibition 'We say we saw last less and now we see may more' that opens Friday 2 September 2022, Ian Page elaborates on a theme that could be described as what is now very much in use among Dutch politicians, namely “with the knowledge of today we then would have acted differently”.
Ian Page (1985, Los Angeles, USA) was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam from 2019-2021. He took part in several group exhibitions at Galerie van Gelder, such as the 'Slaap Lekker Show' in 2019. This August a solo exhibition 'Mein Innenhof / My Patio – He Do The Police In Different Voices' opens in Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany. Ian Page lives and works in Los Angeles, United States.