Maartje Fliervoet

Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles

Fffhhh, Ssszzhh -or- Fffhhh, Cchhzzz (Attempts at translating to language sounds produced by the touching of paper under different circumstances.) If you turn a page, it's as if you leave the space toward a new coherence of words, and possibly images. . Project developed during the 8 months of her residency at Wiels.

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Fffhhh, Ssszzhh –or– Fffhhh, Cchhzzz
(Attempts at translating to language sounds produced by the touching of paper under different circumstances.)

If you turn a page, it's as if you leave the space toward a new coherence of words, and possibly images. You move pages from right to left (or left to right) and while doing so you move a volume until you have closed the book's cover. What is not visible is present as a mass. An open book repeatedly presents one moment in a succession of moments: in the same volume there can be a few seconds between browsing-time, months reading-time or thousands of years story-time.

If through repetition and the stacking of information you add something to an image, you also remove something: noise enters the initial picture. The print becomes blurred, but you can also see something new. The picture seems to exist merely as surface(s) but at the same time a new spatiality comes up.

"Making art to me is mostly an act of viewing as a mental activity. The camera and the enlarger in the darkroom have become devices that serve a coming into being of a certain way of thinking: as a mental exploration of the world from a specific perspective. One could see this approach to photography as a metaphor for a device or lens that can frame, form or even deform a view: a mental viewfinder." Maartje Fliervoet

An exhibition as a project by Maartje Fliervoet, developed during the 8 months of her residency at Wiels.

Thanks to: Atelier de moulage of the Royal Museums in Brussels.
Project supported by: Fonds BKVBPartners: [Hayez]

Image: Untitled 2a. 2010. Analogue black and white print. 39x50 cm.

More info:
Devrim Bayar
Residency Coordinator +32 (0)2 3400051 devrim.bayar@wiels.org

Opening: Wednesday 01.12 6pm
(note: the opening was first announced on Thursday 02.12, but it has been advanced to the day before)

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