Luminous Objects
My latest project consists of two silkscreens as light sculptures. The residu on-top of the screens which you would usually wash off the window, together with printed paper, tape and the different layers within the screen form a new image. As a reference to the typical layering of silkscreen print, the different layers are made visible by the light. The screen printing frame is original intended for long-term production and reuse. The materiality of the screen as an object in itself is for very valuable to me. For me it's not about the print that the screen can make, but about the screen as a work in itself. Referring to its big brother the painting in size and aesthetics, I look through means of assembling the works with its own production parts: the original transparent film, the paper to keep the printing tables clean, the masking tape and glass are all used. Deconstruction of the print.
Assembled, then reordered and arranged into an object where again the materiality of the underlying structures of traditions of printing are uncovered and displayed. switches fluidly between digital and traditional forms of printmaking. What is the value of the printmaker and the print itself in a time where everything can be generated and mechanically made?
Through artificial image generation I seek the connection rather than the separation between traditional printmaking and digital forms image creation. Printed images are ripped without value, reordered only to be re-photographed, printed, ripped and generated again. reordered and arranged into an object where the underlying structures of printmaking are questioned and shown in a new way. Something that started out as a silkscreen print can end up as an installation or light sculpture. through the deconstruction of what already exists, materials and proceses can become something else without any prior knowing of what it will be.