Anywhere reloaded #04, painting on paper, 150×120cm, 2007
I’ve now a good series of painting material, but as an image is never experienced as a real situation and finally is only a strong personal interpretation of a space, I plan to prepare an intervention in it. I don’t know if I’ll get the authorisations for doing this at North Station Brussels, which belongs to SNCB, but it could actually be in any non-space. I need at least few equipment and access to electricity.
My idea is to fictionalise the space by use of lights and a certain “mise en scene” in order to allows individuals to perceive it differently. Once the gap created, the viewer becomes actor of the emptiness. He has to fill the time-space offered to him. This concept join what I developed with the “dis-connected project” where the emptiness available in the “helmets” allowed the users to dis-connect from their environment.
Again the ability of the spectator to experience something is only up to him. His openness to perception could create nothing or everything. But it brings me other questions, is it the person who sublimates the real or is it the real that sublimates his perception of appearances? It leads me to the notion of being “inhabit” (in french we say that an object or anything non human can be “habité”), it means that spaces could be alive and inhabit by their own soul. It could be natural, as mountains, or artificial spaces, as buildings, non-spaces.
In this research, I have noticed that it’s not necessarily me who is attracted by these spaces, but I have sometimes the impression that they call me, that they have their things to say to whom could be able to stop the flow and listen to them. Then, would those spaces be kind of monolith, making connections between the visible and the invisible? Between the surface where we walk and another level of reality?
Therefore the project of an intervention becomes more relevant. The paintings create an experience of a image, a vision of this concept of the monolith but would it be possible to make it experienced in real? Or would it remains a fantasy?
Some interesting books or articles:
O Altitudo!: An Interview with Robert Macfarlane, Brian Dillon, in Cabinet Magazine, The Mountains issue, 2007
Images, Perception and Stereotypes, Alia Rayyan, February 2006
Non-Lieux, introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité, Marc Augé, Seuil, 1992
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