Forest

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UV print on multiplex, oil paint, lacquered steel frame, blackout fabric

Image: 183,2 x 246 x 4 cm / Installation: variable dimensions

2021

Project

Ives Maes is creating a new series of works based on the pre-photographic panorama and camera obscura pavilions. While lens-based media were used to create panorama pavilions, experimental architectural designs were inherent to the camera obscura pavilions; they only required a darkened space with an aperture to project an image of the outside into its shadows. Maes is venturing into a formal synthesis between architecture, installation, photography and painting by designing his own pavilions as photo-cameras. Inside, he records images on wooden back panels, turning the photographs into architectonic parts of the pavilions. The recordings are upside-down, inverted, and in black & white, and finished by adding colours in oil paint. The images, as well as the pavilions’ features, are often self-referential and influenced by mobile architecture, nomadic tents, tourist camping’s, paradise escapes, refugee shelters, refuges. 

Exhibition

Forbidden Fruit Create Many Jams

Sofie Van De Velde Gallery

26/11/2022 – 08/01/2023

Solo exhibition

Installation view by Joost Joossen