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Body Paint

© Corinne de Korver

With artist Memo Akten’s installation, located opposite the stairs to the permanent exhibition What is Film?, you can create a colourful animation on the wall by dancing, jumping and moving around. Body Paint is instant filmmaking that translates your movements onto the big screen and lets you decide what the script is.

A child jumps in front of the Body Paint, their movements are translated into bright colours on the wall
© Corinne de Korver
Two adults move in front of the Body Paint, their movements are translated into bright colours on the wall
© Corinne de Korver

Memo Akten on Body Paint: ‘We have a natural instinct to express ourselves by means of movement. Body Paint investigates our capacity for non-verbal expressive communication and combines this with our desire to create. And more than that, our desire to create something beautiful.’

What is Film?

Body Paint is part of the permanent exhibition ‘What is Film?’.

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Three children jump in front of the Body Paint, their movements are translated into bright colours on the wall
© Corinne de Korver