 |
|
|
 |
|
|
| |
Visual Codes
In my work, I confront visual codes, by superposing them in one image. By codes I understand a visual language, known to belong to a certain time in art history or popular culture. I’m as interested in classical christian european art as I am in modern art, decoration or comics.
Using different visual languages means looking at the world from different angles for me. I’m not interested in finding „the one and only way to see the world“ – but I search a way for these different visuals to work together. It is, actually, quite political.
Some of the visual icons are related to current events: there are cowboys, islamists, icons of the earth. However, these are not realistic, but drawn in a cute, manga sort of way that seems innappropriate of the subject. This rather ironic way to draw things allows us a distance that we don’t automatically have.
Working like that creates links between the images. There are no visual winners or losers, only participants in search of a visual balance. Some images are related to history, mostly modern or christian. This underlines the historical character of the issue. Cultures have been at war since the beginning of mankind, this is just one more chapter.
However, forced to live together, in my drawings different cultures seem to get along quite well. Different visual points of view rather struggle in the spectator’s mind than in the image itself. They finally find some odd kind of coexistence.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
