From: La Châtaigneraie (BE)
To: Het Nieuwe Domein (NL)
This gesture elaborates a question around the visual. My drawing of the Alpine summit Schilthorn gets “destroyed” by a gesture where the graphite attacks the view. The horizon becomes problematic as it is juxtaposed with the paper’s surface brought into view by graphite’s marking. In my work I have often destroyed horizons, in search of a beyond that
is here, tactile, and present. These images attempt to make visible the deep interweaving of the visual with the materiality of the image.
Images promise openings, views. Using gestures that disturb their views, I expose, or rather “ex-peau-se” their material presence; to expose or to expeause as to make emerge from a skin, they way Jean Luc Nancy suggested with the term “expeausition” in his book Corpus (2000).
The theme consciously evokes the landscape paintings of the modern era in an attempt to make a subtle comment on the myth of man looking at nature as a landscape, as a separate thing. Attempting a visual dislocation, I wish to return to the tactile, to speak of the matter, as a present, fragile, unfolding condition.