A selection of the paintings series, Anywhere Reloaded has been selected for Input/Output, a competition and exhibition in De Bond (Brugge) with Hallveig Agustsdottir, Charlotte De Groote, Peter De Meyer, Marie-Laure Delaby, Filip Gilissen, Phillip Henderickx, Oscar Hugal, Berten Jaekers, Jonas Marga, Matgorzata Maria Olchowska, Sven Overheul, Jasper Rigole, Yoko Tack, Stijn Van Acker, Sofie Van Der Linden en Tamara Van San.

The works will be presented from  October 17 – November 15, 2009.
Opening on Friday 16th of October!

De Bond
Buiten Smedenvest 1 -8000 Brugge

During the last Threeplusone residency and exhibition that took place in Zennestraat 17 (Brussels) this late summer, I presented an installation mixing flickering light and painting projection with the help of Arduino , Processing and a small LDR.

The aim of the residency was to create new site-specific works, directly inspired from this old laboratory, and connected with the idea of “extension”, coming from certain questions that we wanted to raise, such as: How to extend a media with another?, How to extend an image into a space?, How to extend a space into a media?

Starting from that, I chose one of the rooms available in Zennestraat 17: the one completely painted in black during the last exhibition, except for a white frame. This room was especially made to welcome a projection… and suited to one of the works I wanted to achieve: a hybrid installation where outside light interfere with the inner lights of the image. A complete auto-sufficient system that the public could only look at and not interact with.

From this process, results an empirical dialog between  two flickering phenomenons, a tensed experience with a constantly appearing/disappearing image, touching nearly the state of film, but remaining always a still, questioning ourselves on the reality of the space, the image and the experience that we are living.

A video documentation of the installation will come soon but here you can already find some pictures…

From this Monday 5th of January until 27th February 09, some paintings of the anywhere reloaded project are exhibited in Nucleo’s office in Ghent. You can visit it during working hours from Monday till Friday.

Nucleo develops affordable, good quality studios in the city of Ghent and its surroundings for artists active in various art disciplines. I could rent a temporary studio from them this year, located in the beautiful Leopold Caserne.

contact: info@nucleo.be

Adress: Nucleo vzw
Lange Violettestraat 237-239
9000 Ghent, Belgium

photos: Kristina Ianatchkova

Here are some pictures of recent works in progress (they still need to be finished after being mounted on board).

After exploring and revealing specific qualities of the non-place self (heterogeneity, reflective surfaces, geometricity) by hollowing out the space of its recognizable elements, I try now to go deeper in the merge of  surfaces. I’d like to lead the image to a certain state of in-between, between something recognizable and something where all directions would have been erasing.

After having working on development of the installation with light texture (I will post some pictures soon), I’ve been back to photo and video work on nonplaces. First, I needed more material for my paintings and especially with a better connection between the images. Not only non-places but spaces that could be emptying of their utilitarian content and bring the image to a certain abstration level.

Afterwards, I’ve done video and photo experiments on this emptying of the urban space by superimposing time frame layers. By exemple, I’ve rendered 500 frames of video captures that I’ve superimposed with transparency. The result is a motionless glimpse of what happen with superimposed video layers. The quality of the video image is increased by this effect and all reflections, colors are stronger.