My first series of photos that I made for my dissertation in interior architecture at the Sint-Lukas Institute was indebted to the typologies of Bernd und Hilla Becher. Starting from a particular electric…
Esse est percipi?
According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), material things do not exist until they have been observed.
Does a rainbow exist if there is no human, animal or camera to perceive it?
Does a place exist if it has never been archived or documented?
Probably... But I still err on the side of caution.
The unmemorable place
Het idee voor ‘The unmemorable place’ vindt zijn oorsprong in de tentoonstelling ‘Recollecting Landscapes‘ (S.M.A.K.- Ugent) en het werk van de Belgische Magnum-fotograaf John Vink (°1948).
In…
Laten we het maanlicht doden!
Uccidiamo il Chiaro di Luna!
Laten we het maanlicht doden!
Let's murder the moonlight!
Futurist manifesto by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1909)
In december 1993, during the last…
The Weverbergh House
'The Weverbergh house is one of the single-family houses Willy Van Der Meeren built after the World Fair of 1958, each different from the others, but all with equally original syntheses of material,…
CC Westrand
‘Westrand’ at Dilbeek, close to Brussels was designed by Alfons Hoppenbrouwers in 1973 as a concrete building, inspired by the brutalist philosophy and architecture of Le Corbusier. In the ingenious…
Eylenbosch
Brasserie Eylenbosch was founded in 1894 in Schepdaal (Dilbeek) by Emile Eylenbosch, who was also the town mayor. It has been a brewery site until 1989. Eylenbosch was known for his Gueuze & Lambic…
Nga !
'Nga! nyama inso baitungela mangongi na mangongi; weneke oke o lingongi mpinu okoki lene nyama njiki njiki, mpe baitungela mandaku na mandaku,ekabela lojata o libanda, nde punda wobele.' (from 'Mokingi…
Grimm
Myths and fairy tales are a phantasmagorical form of transmission of word but as well of images. This makes them very interesting study cases. Where is the origin of these grotesque tales? How is the…
Caere, un giorno alla necropoli
The Etruscan Necropolis of the Banditaccia extends over a distance of about 10 km. The necropolis contains four hundred burial sites over a period spanning from the 8th to the 2nd centuries BC. Cerveteri…