Archives: Expos

Béatrice LORTET & Jérémy NAKLÉ

The birth of an island

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Drawings / Serigraphy / Installation

The birth of an island, a succession of geological events that results in an outcrop of land that can be reached, walked on. Here, Beatrice Lortet and Jeremy Naklé question this creative process. One uses painting and screen printing, the other drawing. Their tool and medium serve their research directly, and become a means of acting on a shared reference framework. Through their respective work, they transcend an image by digression, alteration, multiplication. The period of the exhibition allows these two artists to compare their work, imagine a place where the series are broken, and images linked in a third space; creative processes and work are in crisis, not to determine what the work is, but when. The exhibition then allows consistent formatting of questions and results. The work, or rather the culmination of the work takes shape in this third space, the furniture, where one item in a series, linked to another, are shown together making sense, an island.

© Béatrice LORTET & Jérémy NAKLÉ

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Hallveig ÁGÚSTSDÓTTIR

OBJETs SONOREs

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B-Gallery

Drawings

“Hallveig Ágústsdóttir examines the relationship between image and sound, using sound drawings, installations and arrangements with ‘found sounds’ and performances. Her drawings form ‘imaginary soundscapes’ and challenge the viewer to look beyond the overall appearance, texture and technique. In the concentration of seeing, we discover the momentary nature of the sounds that occur in every gesture in the creative process; an auditory and visual event. Hallveig makes ‘visual music’ in the present tense.”

© Hallveig ÁGÚSTSDÓTTIR

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Steven TEVELS

Sound in Progress

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Sound installation

In his search for the essence of auditory perception, Steven Tevels aims to develop a personal sonographic language; an individual means of ‘composing’. A search for newer presentations of ‘sound’ and the development of other media than the most conventional ‘loudspeaker’ that we have used for decades. Simply put, sound is an essential and logical component of his working resources. Sound is a primary, essential requirement of music. Sounds in which we can no longer discern pitch are called ‘noise’. What is perceived as music is determined by conventions.

© Steven TEVELS

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WILLEM SARAH

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B-Gallery

Installation

WILLEM SARAH is an artist duo consisting of Willem CORTEN and Sarah MARKS. Their work tells about the relationship between audience, artwork and space. What interests them is the way a viewer looks, interprets and reacts. To move the narrative aspect of their films as much as possible towards the viewer and the real space, they always choose highly stylized characters and storylines. The origin of their work can be found in everyday situations that at first we experience as for granted but overtake us with a cognitive dissonance.

© WILLEM SARAH

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Artists

Rokko MIYOSHI

Cycles (Cycloids and the Cyclops)

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Installation

From dust to stones, stones to rocks and rocks to planets, there’s an inherent rhythm in the universe, a force that makes everything subject to cycles. We knew this before mythological times. Particles adding up to make matter, straight lines accumulating to make curves, circles and spheres. From the atomic to the astronomical, these cycles can last from a few seconds to thousands of years, all influencing on everyday life. The moon and the sun control the tides, the alternation of night and day and the seasons, giving us a rhythmic order which we count in days, months and years. They establish with our inner clock, the circadian and corporeal rhythms, forming an astonishing harmony, making our lungs breathe, our blood flow, our eyes blink, our hair grow, our skin shed. All cycles interrelated with each other in circular movements. From planets to rocks, rocks to stones, stones to dust.

© Rokko MIYOSHI

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Remco ROES

Exercises of the man

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B-Gallery

Installation

The work of Remco Roes originates in a continuous landscape of ruins, composed of fragments, that continues to grow over time. His fascination for scars, contours and erased significance exceed a purely aesthetic adoration: they become anchors for a questioning of the system and “frameworks” within which we live. Out of a conscious naivety Roes attempts to create – through a continuous reordering of the banal status quo – “meaningful” constellations. The content of such a collection is always filled with spaces, objects, projections, photos, texts and abstract concepts that interact like actors on a stage. For the exhibition at B-gallery the common theme is formed by a series of playful, theatrical “exercises of the man” that are developed in relation to the City of Brussels and to the exhibition space. The final exhibition is a glance back at the stage after these exercises have been “completed.” An invitation, perhaps, to yourself do a dance on this exposed ruin.
The exhibition is a part of Remco Roes’ doctorate research entitled “The scenography of sublime spaces” at Hasselt University / PHL

© Remco ROES

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Philip JANSSENS

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Installation

Philip JANSSENS is a visual artist and musician. He creates threedimensional sculptures, collages and drawings. His work focuses on the relation we have with the object and the relationship between objects. His work is based on the theory that the subject has no ontological privilege, and that the world exists without us. In addition to his visual work Philip JANSSENS has joined forces with Stefaan HUYGHE for the collaboration platform Children Of The White Leaf. In this project they combine field recordings, tape loops, contactmic’s, and so forth, in order to generate random sounds in a wide array of tones, drones and shy harmonies. They work with the physical space, radio waves and whatever appears willingly.

© Philip JANSSENS

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Marion FABIEN

Liquidation Totale

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Installation

A shop window allows you to see what is in the shops, engaging the eye in a to and fro movement between the interior and exterior. An exhibition is a place where an artist’s work is presented. Completed works, processes, working documents, tools, devices, work in progress? For this exhibition at the B-Gallery, the gallery windows were rendered opaque with a coat of whiting on which was written: LIQUIDATION TOTALE. That is the title of the installation in the interior. Marion Fabien created it for the exhibition space in acknowledgment of the gallery’s situation in a shopping arcade. The message would normally be an invitation to the passer-by to enter the shop to buy the last remaining items of stock. Here, the elements present are conceived not as products but as devices – support for a work or hypothetical article for sale. The different elements of the installation, emptied of their contents, and no longer the support for anything, become a presentation, objects, modules that resonate together. Confronting the visitor with two possible scenarios: the memory of an exhibition or the anticipation of another, one yet to come.

© Marion FABIEN

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Katherine LONGLY

Past Forward

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Photography

De Chinese economie is al jaren aan een opmars bezig die de manier van leven, de smaak en de ambitie van de inwoners onherroepelijk ondersteboven haalt. De reeks PAST FORWARD is het resultaat van een artistiek verblijf in het Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Peking. De fotograaf probeert te begrijpen wat het is om zonder broers of zussen op te groeien en neemt de dromen en ambities van de Chinese bevolking – niet geheel zonder gevoel voor humor of poëzie – op de korrel.
K. Longly (B, 1980) – École de photographie et de techniques visuelles Agnès Varda, Brussel.

© Katherine LONGLY

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Georgia KOKOT

Living in an immaterial world, and I was material girl

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Installation

If you know that a picture of something is actually a picture of something which is already dead, then you’re probably also aware that all things (yourself included) are busy changing, passing, and sooner or later will cease to be. But there’s no sense in reasoning that life is merely a series of fading moments, filled with things that basically don’t exist, or of doubting whether all you’ve lived and loved was ever really there. You can remember it -sometimes like it was just yesterday- can’t you? And hasn’t so much of it seemed even more real with the passing of time? The images of the things in our pictures, doomed as they are, remind us of what was, is, and will forever have been. Pour over them and reminisce with the luxury of hindsight, and you’ll grow fonder of what you once couldn’t fully appreciate. In the end, the memories that those images trigger will be better than that which was only temporary. So go ahead and try all you want, but you won’t be able to hold on to what will soon be gone. In memory however you can count on, and keep for always, something more lasting than anything in this tangible world. Memory will serve all that which has mattered to you.

© Georgia KOKOT

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