The island series.
Monoprints on paper, 2019
40 x 40 cm
In this series of prints, which are part of the island series; existing so far of large scale charcoal drawings and a video work which I am currently working on, you see film stills of the movie 'the Lord of the Flies'. The titles on the works are directly taken from the novel "Lord of the flies', by William Golding.
'The island series' plays with our ideas of a tropical paradise island. It plays with our perception of an image. Children are associated with innocence and a deserted tropical island is associated with paradise. These two combined, what could possibly go wrong ?
The boys of the island are figures in a parable or fable which like all great parables or fables reveals to the reader an intimate, disquieting connection between the innocent, time-passing, story-telling aspect of its surface and the great, “dimly appreciated” depths of its interior.
It's not a simple adventure story of boys on a desert island.
Decay-destruction-demoralization-hysteria-panic.
The drawings/prints are realistic, but also emphasise their fictional nature. It's about the deceptive nature of the image in general. The work has a photographic quality because I want them to stay close to a certain reality, or at least pretend that this closeness exists. Photographs and film have an acclaim to truth, or a documentary value. Drawings are more fictional in nature. Making drawings of photographs suddenly places them in a different, self invented universe.
Because they are stills, they demand that everything that comes before and after should be invented. That is the big difference with film. A still has a greater mythical potential but the stills together can be read as a narrated story made of cinematic freeze frames.
The titles/captions play a big role to guide the viewer into how to read the work, provide a context, but also cause confusion. The combination of what you see and what you read is giving you information that confuses slightly, but just enough to make you wonder what really happened, and makes you have another, better look and see things in a different perspective.
Monoprints on paper, 2019
40 x 40 cm
In this series of prints, which are part of the island series; existing so far of large scale charcoal drawings and a video work which I am currently working on, you see film stills of the movie 'the Lord of the Flies'. The titles on the works are directly taken from the novel "Lord of the flies', by William Golding.
'The island series' plays with our ideas of a tropical paradise island. It plays with our perception of an image. Children are associated with innocence and a deserted tropical island is associated with paradise. These two combined, what could possibly go wrong ?
The boys of the island are figures in a parable or fable which like all great parables or fables reveals to the reader an intimate, disquieting connection between the innocent, time-passing, story-telling aspect of its surface and the great, “dimly appreciated” depths of its interior.
It's not a simple adventure story of boys on a desert island.
Decay-destruction-demoralization-hysteria-panic.
The drawings/prints are realistic, but also emphasise their fictional nature. It's about the deceptive nature of the image in general. The work has a photographic quality because I want them to stay close to a certain reality, or at least pretend that this closeness exists. Photographs and film have an acclaim to truth, or a documentary value. Drawings are more fictional in nature. Making drawings of photographs suddenly places them in a different, self invented universe.
Because they are stills, they demand that everything that comes before and after should be invented. That is the big difference with film. A still has a greater mythical potential but the stills together can be read as a narrated story made of cinematic freeze frames.
The titles/captions play a big role to guide the viewer into how to read the work, provide a context, but also cause confusion. The combination of what you see and what you read is giving you information that confuses slightly, but just enough to make you wonder what really happened, and makes you have another, better look and see things in a different perspective.
