These are the works/portfolios that were presented by the Master students in 2016.
Caroline Kolkman KASKA (Antwerp)
04/06/2016Two sides to a story
Our perception is conditioned. Only when something goes against our expectations we will start to really look.
While working on Two sides to a story, I got inspired by a fragment from the short story: ‘Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ written by Louis Borges in 1962. In it he describes the geometry of a fictional land named Tlon:
“The basis of visual geometry is the surface, not the point. This geometry disregards parallel lines and declares that man in his movement modifies the forms which surround him.”
This fragment rhymes with my project, which revolves around the idea that the image or memory we have of a situation can not be summarized in just one picture. In Tlon it is impossible to see the same object from different sides, since the identity of the object changes when it presents itsellf from a diffrent angle. In our world it is not the object but our idea of the object that changes.
However, In both worlds the slightest movement of the observer can affect something's appearance completely.
Evy Raes, KASKA (Antwerp)
04/06/2016Which image emerges when the connections in your brain vanish?
People with dementia are shown frequently in photos and videos. But what happens inside of them? How does it affect their visual perception?
Experiments with the medium photography evokes a look on the vision of people with Alzheimer, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy Body and Parkinson.
Elies Van Renterghem, KASK
04/05/2016“you will become song” is a work that deals with longing, being-in-love and heartbreak and its presentation in cinema, literature, poetry et cetera.
My knowledge on falling-in-love is however one of theory, not of practice. This is not made to express my feelings,, it’s rather my interest for the aesthetics, on the presentation of longing. It’s not about how it feels, it’s about how it seems (to me). “you will become a song” consists of fabricated memories and fragments, as I try to put them together to shape a new narrative of longing and aching.