"GREEN HOUSE ONLY GREENER"
MANUEL PADDING AND SAM REES
BAS ZOONTJENS
March, 28th -> April, 27th
Every Thursday evening from 20:00 to 22:00, by appointment or when events take place.
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Manuel Padding and Sam Rees
"Reflecting a depiction of a parallel reality, our practice synthesizes the non-fictional and the fictional.
Manuel
Padding and I make installations, sculptures, sound, and videos, using
each medium to explore the tensions and boundaries between fantasy and
reality. Through these various media, we depict worlds with ambiguous
temporal realities that could be present, past, or future.
Most often the videos in our installation pieces are adapted for a specific space.
Sometimes
we include sculpture components as well. The complex themes of loss,
disappearance, historical utopias, dystopia, nature, and environmental
collapse are frequent in our works. Images of ruins and abandoned
structures often coexist; reflecting the fragility of our environment
evokes sentiments of decay and loss. An important part of portraying
this loss is the sound component of the installation.
Sometimes
dystopia and utopia are found in the same work. The relationship between
humanity, nature, and the imminent environmental collapse is a subject
that is a constant endeavor in our work. The recurring motifs of ruins
and abandonment serve as a powerful reminder of the ephemeral nature of
our existence."
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Bas Zoontjens
"My
collages derive from photos I take on my travels to different places in
Europe. City environments are a rich landscape full of noise, decay and
beauty that I can delve into. Often wandering the outskirts to discover
odd and peculiar scenes or places where time has shifted them into a
new reality.
By using a simple editing program I create images
in a process of adding, removing and tweaking. Layer upon layer. Forms
implode and explode, forcing us to abandon the familiar and instead
describing a world in an aftermath of some huge event. The surreal and
psychedelic qualities of the collages give the viewers the opportunity
to have their own interpretation towards the works. An openness that I
think is important in a time where fixed feeds are thrown at us every
day.
One could call these images odes to a place or portraits in
some sort of sense, they seem to connect with each other as
well... bringing synthesis in a state of fragmentation."
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