AgriValley
two-channel video installation
16:9 full HD, 50p, 33:01 min
2022
This two-channel video installation captures the Netherlands’ current, yet futuristic, landscape through a purely cinematographic approach. The machines fill the space with images and sound and gradually the viewer see more and more interaction between man and the machine. The image rhyme emphasises both contrasts and similarities, and, at times, creates subtle absurdities. Sound plays an important role in this; the cadence of the machines together forms a new sound. Walking through the space, you experience the sounds of the different landscapes differently each time — thanks to the Dolby surround effect — and they tell the same story in different ways. The images and sound tell the story.

Cinematographer and film editor

Mirte van Duppen

Scenario

Lotte Lentes

Soundscape

Benedikt Wöppel

Color correction

Revolve, Frans Suijs

Producent

Paulien Mandos

Edit coach

Gabrielle Provaas

Simulated scent of a tomato greenhouse
Algoritmic Perfumery
O'dor Aroma Diffuser, a bespoke scent
2022
In van Duppen’s youth, her family would often drive from Tilburg to ‘het Westland’, entering a landscape replete with greenhouses. On these visits to her maternal aunt and uncle, who had an anthurium (floral) business, she never failed to explore their greenhouses. As a child, she remembers the excitement of the unknown landscapes; her senses triggered by the heat, humidity and smell.

Mirte van Duppen commissioned Algortimic Perfumery to capture the smellscape of a tomato greenhouse. This particular memory — a scent memory, is part of AgriValley Hotels, the video installation designed to engage multiple senses because images alone could never do the experience justice.

Pink light
light plates fern grower Vitro Plus
2022
This distinctive light, with its fairy-tale pink glow, is the minimal light necessary for crops to grow. Plants only require red and blue spectra, not white light (which contains all the colours of the spectrum). Fewer colours translate into fewer costs, thereby allowing greenhouse growers to reduce their expenses. The lighting panels, floating over the ferns, mimic this diffuse light by spreading this ‘idea of sunlight’ as evenly as possible over the plants, like a blanket. The light source is on the side of the panels, whose laser pattern distributes the light in conjunction with a reflection plate.

EXHIBITION
08.03.2024 – 09.03.2024, 10:30 – 22:00
Entrance Friday 08.03.2024: free entrance
Entrance Saturday 09.03.2024: €20,00 – €28,00

VIERNULVIER
De Vooruit - Muziekstudio
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23 9000 Gent

exhibition made possible by
VIERNULVIER in collaboration with Kunstenplatform PLAN B.
With the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgium

AgriValley is made possible by Creative Industries Fund NL, Impulsgelden Provincie Noord-Brabant, Kunstloc and Tilburg Makersfonds