The Valley Continuum (2018), diptych
One artwork: two videos. The Swiss 'Fleischmann' landscape with slowly moving cars, a small traditional town amidst the majestic mountains, the realm of the Gods. There's little change, but the slow movements of cars are combined with tracks left by the particle showers of natural radioactivity created by cosmic rays from outer space in the cloud chamber at CERN, Geneva (CH). It's a monumental 'play' with reality and it's scale, a positive that implies a negative, the colour vs the black & white. It’s the same and it’s the differences.
The Valley Continuum (2018), part 1
The Valley shows the rustic Rhône Valley in Switzerland. It is part of both the (re-photographic) Project of Image that I started in 2012 and the project CERN / CH from 2017-2018. This particular bird eye view connects with part 2 (Continuum) on an abstract level and is a video in-between movement and stillness on a warm and late summer afternoon. A small traditional town amidst the majestic mountains, the realm of the Gods is a monumental piece showing slow distant movements of people like small particles on the flat surface of the earth.
The Valley Continuum (2018), part 2
Continuum is a video of a scientific cloud chamber at CERN, Geneva, CH, showing tracks left by particles from the natural radioactivity present in the soil, rocks, water and air and particle showers created by cosmic rays from outer space. Mainly high energy protons, they collide with atoms in the air, creating a myriad of lower-energy new particles, like pions, muons and electrons.
Performance (2017)
Performance (2017) is a choreography of cars meandering up and down the anonymous architecture of a multi story carpark in the entertainment district of Yokohama, Japan. The ‘actors’ in this play are ordinary people going about their business on their way to work or visiting theatre and mall. They are unaware of their role in the bigger scheme of things, let alone the concept of beauty that lies in their contribution to the perpetuum mobile that is contemporary city as a whole. In this 'photographic video' installation only the passing of time highlights the metaphor for Japanese society and the position of the individual, one’s identity being defined by the group to which one belongs.
The Deal (2015)
A metaphor of the current situation in Hong Kong, in which it's colonial history and Chinese politics meet and look for space to 'co-exist'. The Chinese economical 'boom' dictates the way the city is built, and the architectural and infra-structural consequences it has. The 'old world' is still visible, but the new world is taking over. This 24/7 megalopolis in between West and East is changing, building ever higher with increasing density, like an urban organism that can only grow. It's an almost natural phenomenon, and the old is being replaced by the new. The architecture that remind us of the past await it’s destiny. A shift of power means a different philosophy and this video loop is a reference to this situation.
Synchronicity (2012)
Seoul, South Korea, 2012. The Olympic Stadium with passing traffic and fly-overs, a gigantic busterminal, a kart racing circuit, two drive-in movie-theatres and recreating public. The setting is a platform for varying activities at different times of day and night. Time is slow and movies and real scenes interfere and co-exist. Watch and elaborate. The original video has a total length of 4 hours, 4 minutes and 31 seconds. This preview is 3 parts of 10 minutes each.
Monitor (2008)
In 2007, 25 professionals in architecture, art, philosophy, literature and science reviewed the American Landscape, from the 'Green Guerilla's' and squares of NYC to the original Prairies around Chicago, from the Mall in Washington DC to the National Parks of Arizona. During this trip they took around 35.000 photographs (!), that is 35.000 memories and observations, now collected and edited with only one goal: a reflection on the experience of the 'Space that is America'. A chronologic photographic experiment with 1 photograph for each frame of video. This resulted in 5m29s of USA at the speed of 'light'... You need time to experience reality..