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Anywhere Reloaded : post 5

macha — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:52:24 +0000

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.

Empty places and times

macha — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:10:13 +0000

Chris Marker, La Jetée, 1962

Nicolas Moulin, Vider Paris, 2001

portefolio

The “Bird House Project”

macha — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:26:06 +0000

This morning I had a mail from my friend Sara Nuytemans, just back from Indonesia where she worked on a collaborative project with Arya Pandjalu, an Indonesian artist. And it oddly make me thing about dis-connected…

They developed this project in Bali during the last 4 months and it has been showed at the SIKA Gallery (Bali).

Project description:
“The idea is based on a former work of Arya Pandjalu, a birdhouse in the streets of Yogyakarta. This birdhouse was a reaction on the fact that in Java they shoot all the birds out of the air, for food or just for fun. With the birdhouse Arya wanted to say something about this reckless behavior by giving the birds a house where they can feel at home and save.
For the project Birdhouses we are going to build 4 different birdhouses: a church-birdhouse, a mosque-birdhouse, a temple-birdhouse and a synagogue-birdhouse. They will be made in plate metal, like Arya’s former birdhouses. This material is chosen in this project because of its uniformity and austerity, so that only the form speaks. The birdhouse will be placed in the beautiful public gardens on Bali.
The concept cuts two aspects. The inhabitants of Bali have more respect for nature then the inhabitants of Java. This has a lot to do with the difference in religious persuasion. Java is mainly Muslim while Bali is mainly Hindu. In Bali every creature can be a reincarnation of a known deceased. The consequence is that there are more birds in Bali then on Java and the birds have more freedom.
Another aspect of this project is the freedom of religious persuasion. Can we say that real freedom obtained by putting our own belief (‘the truth’) into perspective?”

Urban Trajectories :: The pics

macha — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:17:35 +0000

The pictures of the exhibitions in Rotterdam and Brussels are here!

It presents a series of pictures and videos on the “Urban Trajectories” theme by international young artists where I showed 3 photos from the serie “anywhere” .

Read the previous post on the exhibition>>>

Urban Trajectories

macha — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:50:24 +0000

I’m presenting 3 pictures from the series anywhere made in 2006.

So, hope to see you on Thursday!

< Urban Trajectories > Video > Photography
An itinerant exhibition showing the work of 30 artist from 3 cities:
Rotterdam, Brussels and Mexico DF around the theme of our daily “urban
journeys”.

< point A to point B in the fastest way possible. Trajectories that our
brain no longer think about becoming some kind of “grey zones” in our
minds>>.

Vernissage: Thursday 05 July from 18 hrs (sound performance: Myosikaa at 19h 30)
Exhibition: from 06 to 12 July
Ateliers: L’Imprimerie 32, rue du métal 1060 St. Gilles (next to parvis)>>