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As Long As ~ Drawing
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006

#2, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

#4, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

#7, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

#13, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

Installation view during Durational Boundaries, ICA, Philadelphia, 2014 (Photo: Aaron Igler / Greenhouse Media)

Overall view, As Long As (Sequence 09), 2011

Overall view, As Long As (Sequence 04), 2011

As Long As ~ Drawing
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006

The space is dark.
One copy machine, one standard piece of paper, glow-in-the-dark paint and a brush.The lid of the copy machine is open and it’s going to stay that way for the duration of the event. A brushstroke is applied to one piece of paper, crossing it horizontally. The paint is wet. When the paper is placed on the machine it’s done without touching the scanning surface – a few millimeters above the glass so as not to leave a trace.Once the copy button is pressed, the scanning light briefly illuminates the space, and charging the glow-in-the-dark paint. A copy is made. Let’s call it: Copy no. 1. The original piece of paper is placed aside. It glows in the dark space.Now a glow-in-the-dark brushstroke is applied to Copy no. 1, which is then placed on the copy machine – without touching its scanning surface. A flash of light illuminates the space once more as the scan-charge-copy happens. The glowing Copy no. 1 is placed next to the original piece of paper.This repetitive process continues, as a sequence of drawings emerges. Each one depending on its predecessor. Each in its own fading countdown. The last copy remains with no glow-in-the-dark layer on it: the promise of an infinite process.

Durational Boundaries, ICA, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2014)
Soul Seek, Internet Opera, slsk.nl (2012)
Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL (2011)
As Long As, Seminar with Christian Bernard, ENSBA, Paris, FR (2006)

#performance #drawing #installation #light #glowinthedark #workonpaper #twodimension #variableduration #cycle #series #sequence #countdown #DurationalBoundaries #Attachment

As Long As ~ Tote,

As Long As ~ South of Somewhere,

Ongoing Collection,

Georgia
Hair
25 x 17 cm
2018

Installation view during Cool Loneliness, Home, Amsterdam, 2018

Georgia
Hair
25 x 17 cm
2018

Georgia was formed and placed on the tiles of my bathroom, while the audience had only a restricted view of the work via the partially open door. This piece – on view during Cool Loneliness – is a personal homage to Georgia O’Keeffe’s body of work and Marcel Duchamp’s Etant Donnés (1946-66). This piece is a bitter-sweet praise to my own hair and the cycle of life. A way to say goodbye

Cool Loneliness, as part of Home Sequence, Home, Amsterdam, NL (2018)

#installation #sitespecific #drawing #ageing #waystosaygoodbye #CoolLoneliness #homage #GeorgiaO’Keeffe #MarcelDuchamp #hair

What’s yours is mine,

Still Fata Morgana,

Last,

Cool Loneliness,

Wild Wind

Sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint etching on iron plate, printed on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 7 + 1 AP, numbered and signed
2020

View during LEAF, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussles, 2020 (Photo: Laurent de Broca and Fondation Boghossian)

Wild Wind

Sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint etching on iron plate, printed on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 7 + 1 AP, numbered and signed
2020

In the limited edition Wild Wind the initial use of black on white is switched: clear letters are read on obscure background. The use of watercolor is replaced by using sugar-lift aquatint technique. The tonal variations of the letters and the brushstrokes suggest the order of reading.

This edition was produced at The Gottesman Etching Centre.

Limited Edition Art Fair, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussles, BE (2020)

#print #drawing #workonpaper #word #wind #edition

Spells,

Still Fata Morgana,

The Rise & Fall,

Spells
Watercolor on paper
Variable dimensions, 29.7 x 21 cm each
Ongoing

DECIDE, 2018

BLEND, 2019

Installation view during Open studio, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussles, 2019

DISTANCE DURATION, Installation view during Open studio, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussles, 2019

ANCIENT, PRIMARY, ACCENT, Installation view during Open studio, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussles, 2019

WOMEN POWER, PORTION, Installation view during Open studio, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussles, 2019

HOMELAND ALONE, ALMOST, Installation view during Open studio, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussles, 2019

CASUAL, AT LAST, Installation view during Open studio, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussles, 2019

Spells
Watercolor on paper
Variable dimensions, 29.7 x 21 cm each
Ongoing

Spells is a text writing system that I developed based on the structure of stencil lettering: a ready-to-use plastic sheet consisting of the whole alphabet.Since Summer 2017 I have been making watercolor drawings of words – carriers of meanings – on paper. When drawing a word, when spelling it, the letters are forced on the paper according to the stencil’s structure. Depending on the spelling, one stencil can form the whole or a part of a word. Once a letter repeats the drawing continues one level below. As I draw the words chronologically, letter after letter, the different intensities of the watercolor range from opacity to increased transparency, suggesting the order of the reading. The choice of words is both calculated and intuitive. My sources vary from books, podcasts, conversations, dictionaries, newspapers, etc. Sometimes a word stays solo or can lead to a pairing or longer sequence. In order for me to have an account of this collection of words, or as I refer to them: “words in my possession”, I have an alphabetic book where I keep a record of each word.

Villa, open studio, Boghossian Foundation -Villa Empain, Brussles, BE (2019)
Cool Loneliness, as part of Home Sequence, Home, Amsterdam, NL (2018)

#drawing #workonpaper #installation #word #carrierofmeaning #collection #unit #system #keyboard #forever #riddle #poetry #sequence #CoolLoneliness

Recalculating Route,

Noon & Ain,

Years Go By and More Words are Forbidden,

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (the Notation),

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As Long As ~ Drawing Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings Variable dimensions and presentation formats Since 2006

As Long As ~ Drawing Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings Variable dimensions and presentation formats Since 2006

Georgia Hair 25 x 17 cm 2018

Georgia Hair 25 x 17 cm 2018

Wild Wind Sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint etching on iron plate, printed on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm Edition of 7 + 1 AP, numbered and signed 2020

Wild Wind Sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint etching on iron plate, printed on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm Edition of 7 + 1 AP, numbered and signed 2020

Spells Watercolor on paper Variable dimensions, 29.7 x 21 cm each Ongoing

Spells Watercolor on paper Variable dimensions, 29.7 x 21 cm each Ongoing

As Long As ~ Drawing
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006

As Long As ~ Drawing
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006

Georgia
Hair
25 x 17 cm
2018

Georgia
Hair
25 x 17 cm
2018

Wild Wind

Sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint etching on iron plate, printed on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 7 + 1 AP, numbered and signed
2020

Wild Wind

Sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint etching on iron plate, printed on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 7 + 1 AP, numbered and signed
2020

Spells
Watercolor on paper
Variable dimensions, 29.7 x 21 cm each
Ongoing

Spells
Watercolor on paper
Variable dimensions, 29.7 x 21 cm each
Ongoing