Forest
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