{"id":9351,"title":"The Absent Present","dimensions":"350 x 250 cm","date_begin":"2004-01-01","material":"mixed media","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":79,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artist","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":17,"permalink":"the-absent-present","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Mixed Media","nl":"Mixed Media","fr":"Mixed Media"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/021/033/large/Tordoir_photo_M_HKA16.jpg?1394546953","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"'The absent present’ is the name of the Israeli property law allowing confiscation of land 'abandoned' by previous (Palestinian) occupants.\r\n\r\nThe work *The absent present* is a collaboration between Narcisse Tordoir and James Beckett.  And although Narcisse Tordoir does not wish to make overt public pronouncements, this piece is indeed politically charged and shows an everyday fait divers-tale from Palestine.  The representation depicts a Palestinian woman with a cart of fruit and vegetables on the way to the market.  The knowledge that the woman, for no valid reason, is detained at a border control post for three days of interrogation by Israeli soldiers, her goods completely gone rotting in the meantime, allows the viewer to assign a subjective judgment to the work.  The bitter atmosphere of the piece is underlined by the musical composition made by James Beckett, using the grating sound of the installation's door to great effect.\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"‘The absent present’ is de naam van de Israëlische wet die de overwegend Joodse bevolking toestaat om achtergelaten land door de voormalige bewoners te confisqueren.\r\n\r\nHet werk *The absent present* is een collaboratie tussen Narcisse Tordoir en James Beckett. Hoewel Narcisse Tordoir geen politiek uitspraken wil doen in de publiek ruimte, is het werk wel politieke geladen en toont een alledaags ‘faits divers’-verhaal uit Palestina. De afbeelding toont een Palestijnse vrouw met een kar groenten en fruit, op weg naar de markt. De wetenschap dat de vrouw zonder aanleiding werd tegengehouden bij een grenscontrole door Israëlische soldaten en drie dagen vastgehouden werd voor ondervragingen waardoor haar koopwaar helemaal was bedorven, laat de kijker een subjectieve beoordeling aan het werk toekennen. De wrange sfeer bij het beeld wordt ondersteund door de muzikale compositie die James Beckett maakte met het geluid van de krassende deur van de installatie. "},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2268,"name":"James Beckett","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}},{"id":268,"name":"Narcisse Tordoir","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}