OR
OR, 2012, 58.8 x 37.2 x 8 cm, neon sign
"...In all these works the gap between the regimes of language and image seems unbridgeable. ‘OR’, on display in the window in Lange Leemstraat, not only emphatically has a material and linguistic presence, but it also suggests that the language itself is a formal and quasi-spatial system. For what is the word ‘OR’ in isolation if not a meaningless building block, a word that establishes a formal relationship but says nothing without a context? One might even say that the word in its material neon form conjures up the whole world around us as an indescribably large – a boundless – entity of potential meanings and links between images /words. Here language and image are both linguistic and visual..." excerpt from exhibition guide Abstract History St. Lucas 2012 by Koen Sels - copyright Koen Sels 2012
"...In all these works the gap between the regimes of language and image seems unbridgeable. ‘OR’, on display in the window in Lange Leemstraat, not only emphatically has a material and linguistic presence, but it also suggests that the language itself is a formal and quasi-spatial system. For what is the word ‘OR’ in isolation if not a meaningless building block, a word that establishes a formal relationship but says nothing without a context? One might even say that the word in its material neon form conjures up the whole world around us as an indescribably large – a boundless – entity of potential meanings and links between images /words. Here language and image are both linguistic and visual..." excerpt from exhibition guide Abstract History St. Lucas 2012 by Koen Sels - copyright Koen Sels 2012
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