T-Shirt Chantal Akerman

Portrait of Chantal Akerman by Kenneth Saunders, 1965. Screen printed on vintage white T-shirt, exclusively for Eye.

Chantal Akerman was one of the first film directors who made the switch to visual art. She rose to fame in the 1970s as a feminist avant-garde filmmaker, and midway through the 1990s she discovered the possibilities of the art gallery. In 1995 she created a large spatial installation on 24 monitors based on D’Est, a film she originally made as a documentary. This marked the start of her ‘second career’ within the world of visual art.