KÜNSTLERHAUS

BETHANIEN

Künstler*innen

Eva-Maria Bogaert

Belgium

Eva-Maria Bogaert’s installations move along a fine line between artists’ films, painting and scientific experimentation. Concentrating on the phenomenon of time, they visualise continuities and processes. The resulting pictures of fleeting sequences of landscapes and structured fields define a kind of filmic painting.

Eva-Maria Bogaert works with very simple, ‘poor’ materials, as for instance slides and slide projectors, i.e. with light, as well as with reel-to-reel tape recorders, plastic rails, nails, rolls and sheets of wood. She thus opens perspectives of poetic enlightenment against the anarchy of the media jungle.

Bogaert also addresses her relationship to her own work by including the image-generating Self in the continuum of its image-generating imagination. The image roams our thoughts, and is constantly modulated, while our thoughts roam the (moving) pictures. Reality and appearance mingle. Devoid of phoney and dogmatic strains, Bogaert’s works deal with visual events that radiate a both sensual and formal presence.

STAY
15.01. – 01.02.2004