Iztok Klančar

The way to art is paved by practicalities

I filmed Daniëlle van Ark during her artist in residence period at the Luceberthuis in Bergen, The Netherlands.

The space gets gradually
revealed through a sequence of tightly framed moving images.

We see not only the studio of a famous artist, but also the profane: the clutter and the dirt, leading to van Ark's manual intervention. 

Van Ark disturbs the decennia-old dust, cobwebs and objects by cleaning them. After that, she focuses on her primary job, working in the studio.

From her performative clean-up, she moves on to arrange and reframe pages that were torn out from Christie’s auction catalogues and scattered across the paint-splattered floor.

In ‘Reframing Art’, van Ark invites ‘the viewer to reflect on the complex dialogue between artistic labor and the market forces that now define much of an artwork’s value.’

Directed by: Daniëlle van Ark
Camera and editing: Iztok Klančar

Shown at

2024

Het Luceberthuis, Bergen (NL)