ABOUT NEW NATURE / THE WORK

This exhibition in concept store Brandpunt / curated in store, was curated by Anne Paternotte and all works had a relation to nature.

The two works I've showed are Ex-it and In·ter·val.

Ex-it, from Latin exire means retracting, going out of. The photograph shows a human made waterfall that cuts the waterflow straight in the middle, bending the water's curve perfectly unnaturally. Turning this photograph upside down is a way to respond to this given as it equally is an unnatural gesture (changing the perspective without changing the image, like changing the waterflow without changing the water). It creates a surreal image that in first instance seems natural but at the same time gets the eyes to wonder, to grasp what is wrong or tempered with. The water's surface transitions between the 'real' and the mirror image. 

In·ter·val, or the in-between space. This postcard has images printed on both sides. The images are similar yet different. The 'front' shows a mountainside that is 'opened-up', torn apart - or covered under a layer of snow. The mountainside on the other side seems not to have been tempered with, or intuitively seems like an unmediated landscape. The work plays with these intuitive notions of what is natural and which image is edited.