. beautiful RUiN

Brooklyn-Antwerp 2027

with
Birgitta De Vos
Marie-Therese De Belder

Stains, scratches, burn marks, colors, papers, fabrics, writings, impressions, graffitti, on walls, floor, ceiling, arches, niches, steps, windows.

Process
Find a space that is being un-used, derelict, abandoned, forgotten, empty.
Write the script
Choose materials
Imagine shapes, surfaces
Apply and transform


The idea:
I have been impressed and admired the work of both Birgitta De Vos and Marie-Therese De Belder. The sense of natural "being" present in their work, especially the use of materilas, absence of color and expressive texture, always resonated with my personal preference for the impact of time onto surfaces, spaces and materials in general and what resulting language that generates.
Meeting and spending time in conversation with them, an easy task as it always feels that we can talk about nothingness and everything endlesly, finding connections and pathways between seemingly separated things.

I believe they feel, as I do, that All can be read in any small part of our produced narrative (mind+material), details acting as punctuation marks.

The RUiN concept includes various processes into one: recovery, destruction, reassembling, contemplation, healing, manipulating...

To ruin something can be to fix it, to improve its condition or to reveal something previously hidden.

A ruin pre-supposes decay, time impressed upon the material part of a being, slow spontaneous transformation: age.

Ageing is tranformative, and new. 
Everyday.