Monument of Sugar, filmstill, 2006-2007
16mm film, 67', colour and b/w, silent,
edition of 3 + 2 A/P
(1 A/P with installation of 304 sugar blocks)
Monument of Sugar - how to use artistic means to elude trade barriers.
The installation Monument of Sugar consists of two groups of sugar blocks and a 16mm film essay. To encapsulate the historically evolved trade policy Van Brummelen & De Haan juxtaposed 1000 euro’s worth of sugar purchased in Europe with the counterweight purchased in Nigeria. European Benchmark counts 160 blocks. Fortified Nigerian Sugars weakened by second rainy season and overseas transportation counts 144 blocks. Each block was casted at the size of a Rhineland foot in the proportion of the Golden Section (31,4 x 15,7 x 19,4 cm).
Slowly running titles, are intersected by documentary footage exploring, in long takes, hidden production landscapes of global trade, like crop fields, sugar refineries, flow-bands, harbors, and the different sites where the artists performed their drifting studio practice.
Publication:
Monument de Sucre, film generics and pancartes (english/francais), edition 2500
For more:
Argos Brussels
