After Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, they became human. Beings in an unprecedented and wild environment, looking for knowledge. The Chemomechanical Pencil brings together works that take a look at the contemporary relationship between man and nature. What connects both is the camera; the gesture of shooting, making technical images. By means of these gestures one can, according to philosopher Vilém Flusser, deduce how man is in the world and how his worldview takes shape through the technical image. Man collect observations and assemble them. Then they get meaning.
This group exhibition is the result of the research project How To Hunt With The Camera by Nick Geboers, which examines how different the impressions of our world are when different devices are used. What influence does the camera have on the user and in the next phase on the subject? The exhibition is based on photographic works, video installations and publications for which various parameters of the photographic program were used. What is questioned is the relationship between the image maker, the device and the subject; the world in which we live.
"As the only one of all animals, he stands upright to stare, to direct his eyes to heaven. The rest of the creations, the world, nature, are limited by or to themselves. But man is of a different nature ... "
- Gilbert Simondon -
With works by: Jeroen Bocken, Fabian Dietz, Brad Feuerhelm, Nick Geboers, Sarah Hermans, Nich Hance McElroy, Sine Van Menxel, et al.
PRACTICAL
13.11 - 24.11
Opening: 15.11 at 8 PM
Location: Wintertuin, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Mutsaardstaat 31, 2000 Antwerpen)
Open: Mon-Fri from 12 AM - 6 PM, Saturday from 12 AM - 6 PM, closed on Sunday
Free entrance
(c) Nick Geboers