FILM FOCUS METAHAVEN
INTEREMOTIVE INTERFACE: THE FILMS OF METAHAVEN
Museo Reina Sofía, from 27/11 to 30/11
Sabatini Building, Cinema
Free admission until full capacity is reached. You can collect your tickets at the Museum’s ticket office or website (maximum 2 per person). Twenty percent of seats are reserved for attending without advance ticket collection on the day of the event. Doors open half an hour before the screening.
Metahaven’s work brings together graphics, video, installations, writing, and design around urgent questions about governance, identity, power, and transparency in the digital age. The work of this duo, formed by the Dutch artists Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, is situated at the intersection of art, film, and critical thought, using audiovisual language as a tool to explore the tensions between technology, politics, and perception. Their practice combines the rigor of the visual essay with a strong poetic dimension, where graphic design, digital animation, and documentary material fuse into dense and emotionally ambiguous compositions that speak to us of a post-digital romanticism with an allegorical formulation.
The program, co-organized with the Museo Reina Sofía and curated together with Chema González, unfolds across three sessions, which include recent works such as The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) (2024), in which the collective examines language, poetry, and digital time, as well as historical works like The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) (2015), an essay exploring how the internet and social media have radically altered the relationship between truth, power, and perception. The masterclass is conceived as a journey through the main themes of this artistic collective: the relationship between the internet, technology, time, and the moving image.
Metahaven films offers sensory and intellectual experiences in which information becomes visual matter and the viewer is immersed in a hypnotic flow of images, sounds, and text. Their aesthetics, often characterized by chromatic saturation, floating typography, and digital textures, does not aim to illustrate concepts but to provoke reflection on the beauty and violence inherent in contemporary communication. In their work, the screen becomes a critical and meditative space where the politics of information turns into an aesthetic experience.
Organized in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía, with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands.
Museo Reina Sofía, from 27/11 to 30/11
Sabatini Building, Cinema
Free admission until full capacity is reached. You can collect your tickets at the Museum’s ticket office or website (maximum 2 per person). Twenty percent of seats are reserved for attending without advance ticket collection on the day of the event. Doors open half an hour before the screening.
Metahaven’s work brings together graphics, video, installations, writing, and design around urgent questions about governance, identity, power, and transparency in the digital age. The work of this duo, formed by the Dutch artists Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, is situated at the intersection of art, film, and critical thought, using audiovisual language as a tool to explore the tensions between technology, politics, and perception. Their practice combines the rigor of the visual essay with a strong poetic dimension, where graphic design, digital animation, and documentary material fuse into dense and emotionally ambiguous compositions that speak to us of a post-digital romanticism with an allegorical formulation.
The program, co-organized with the Museo Reina Sofía and curated together with Chema González, unfolds across three sessions, which include recent works such as The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) (2024), in which the collective examines language, poetry, and digital time, as well as historical works like The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) (2015), an essay exploring how the internet and social media have radically altered the relationship between truth, power, and perception. The masterclass is conceived as a journey through the main themes of this artistic collective: the relationship between the internet, technology, time, and the moving image.
Metahaven films offers sensory and intellectual experiences in which information becomes visual matter and the viewer is immersed in a hypnotic flow of images, sounds, and text. Their aesthetics, often characterized by chromatic saturation, floating typography, and digital textures, does not aim to illustrate concepts but to provoke reflection on the beauty and violence inherent in contemporary communication. In their work, the screen becomes a critical and meditative space where the politics of information turns into an aesthetic experience.
Organized in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía, with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands.
