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A Broken Rule
Vincent Meessen
Belgium, 2007
Betacam SP (PAL) (Video). 2min. WD
Bio: Vincent Meessen (Baltimore, 1971) lives and works in Brussels. He studied journalism and cultural policies, was active as a social worker and photographer and postgraduated at the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Antwerp. His work develops mainly around the idea of ‘disputed spaces’ - territory as a political issue. Once preferring photography as a medium, he now explores a multitude of media, including video. His work has been shown, among others, in art centres STUK (Leuven), Netwerk (Aalst) and Muhka_Media (Antwerp) and at the Oberhausen International Film Festival, where he was awarded with the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen for
N12°13.062‘/W001°32.619‘ Extended. He also published the photo book Qui-vive (La Lettre Volée, 2003)
