Biological programming, still existent in today’s living beings, prompts a reflex to stay away from fire if it cannot be contained, such as in the case of a wildfire. A ‘meditation on fire’ may therefore sound like a contradiction. Inspired by the inquiry in the amount of power needed to produce a digital “still life” of fire, a task likely to set the computer system on fire,
confronts the biological and the digital. Prolonged shots of silenced fire comply with the notion of biological breathing time, while the abstract nature of the burning fire serves as a metaphor for the technological abstraction linked to its making, hinting at the increasingly abstract world we live in. In
the camera has been removed and disintegrated into a numerical system of binary codes. We are confronted with an illusion of an image, a hallucination, a visual construct of computing. These images offer an immersive experience of the otherwise un-experienceable.
Passage Sainte-Croix, Le Voyage à Nantes, 2024 photo: © Martin Argyroglo
Passage Sainte-Croix, Le Voyage à Nantes, 2024 photo: © Martin Argyroglo
Passage Sainte-Croix, Le Voyage à Nantes, 2024 photo: © Martin Argyroglo
Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster, 2024 photo: Carl Brunn
Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster, 2024 photo: Carl Brunn
Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster, 2024 photo: Carl Brunn
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH: Art for a New Age, 15 December 2023 – 1 April 2024 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle (photo Fred Dott)
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH: Art for a New Age, 15 December 2023 – 1 April 2024 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle (photo Fred Dott)
OUT OF THE BOX, 10. Juni bis 19. November 2023, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, Foto: Tom Bisig, Basel
OUT OF THE BOX, 10. Juni bis 19. November 2023, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, Foto: Tom Bisig, Basel
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2023
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2023
Saint Nicolas Chapel, Antwerp, 2022-23 (photo © David Samyn)
Parasol Unit at Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (photo © Francesco Allegretto)
Parasol Unit at Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (photo © Francesco Allegretto)
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2020
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2020
Musea Brugge, St John's Hospital, Bruges, 2020 (photo Dominique Provost)
Musea Brugge, St John's Hospital, Bruges 2020 (photo Dominique Provost)
Musea Brugge, St John's Hospital, Bruges, 2020 (photo Dominique Provost)
Wildfire, drawing (Smoke is Never Black)
Wildfire, drawing (Blue Smoke Study)
Wildfire, drawing (Kleurstudie, Full Baroque)
Wildfire, drawing (Baroque Curvature), 2020, acrylic paint on paper mounted on cardboard, 81 x 80 cm
Wildfire (Twice Water), 2019, washed ink and pencil on paper, 36 x 51 cm
Wildfire (Balanced by Fire Only), 2020, washed ink and pencil on paper, 36 x 51 cm
Wildfire (Dry Wettness), 2019, washed ink and pencil on paper, 36 x 51 cm
Wildfire (Tree Solo), 2020, washed ink and pencil on paper, 36 x 51 cm
Wildfire, drawing (Water drawn by Fire), washed ink and pencil on paper, 36 x 51 cm