Movement and Stillness

    Transformaties

    2025 – Stretcher Bars and Eyelets

     

    For the paintings still in my possession, the stretcher bars were removed. Eyelets were attached around the canvas.

    Made from 2004 to 2005

    Theme:

    In this series I explore the interplay between moving and still images. Each work exists in two versions: a painting and a video, both depicting the same subject. The painting summarizes and fixes what the video shows in motion. In this way, a dialogue emerges between the static intensity of paint and the dynamics of the moving image.

     

     

    Materials: oil on canvas

    2005 - Four Minutes Goldfish

    The painting shows successive shots of the same fish. In the video, the fish swims in a jar. After two minutes something unexpected and inexplicable occurs — a chance intervention of reality that cannot be repeated.

     

     

    Dimensions: 80x60 cm


    2005 - On the Origin of Butterflies

    The video shows a railway crossing: the barriers close, the train approaches, a ghost floats across the path. At the moment of impact, butterflies appear, flying away as both train and ghost vanish. The painting anchors this visionary scene in paint.

     

     

    Dimensions: 150x110 cm


    2004 - Kids Don’t Wear Camouflage

    A ball bounces and rolls across the street. A car approaches. A child’s shoe appears, and red stains emerge against the camouflage background.

     

     

    Dimensions: 90x70 cm

     


    2004 - Sex Everywhere Sex

    The painting presents a cityscape built up from layers filled with references and objects carrying sexual connotations. In the video, the ambiguity of the title is made explicit, accompanied by a karaoke-like sound fragment that alternates between irritation and arousal.

     

     

    Dimensions: 150x130 cm


    2004 - Drinking a Cup of Coffee in 180°

    At a small table I drink a cup of coffee while endlessly singing the same line: Drinking a cup of coffee in 180° on a very, very, very lonely Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, a toy Santa Claus walks around. The video captures the repetitive action and its absurdity, while the painting fixes the situation in a pictorial image.

     

     

    Dimensions: 80x60 cm


    2004 - Freedom of Imagination

    I place a digital race car from a computer game alongside a simple, handmade cardboard toy car. In the video, a race unfolds: which car will reach the finish line? The work contrasts the forced imagination of virtual worlds with the personal creativity of a playing child.

     

    Dimensions: 150x130 cm