In the western world, everyday life and industry digitalization are often seen with a mixture of horror and fascination. A system in which complex feelings are translated in abstract series of ones and zeros causes a great psychological resistance: this evolution is conceived as a radical breaking point, with many pejorative connotations.
"Binary Moments/Moments binaires" aims to make perceptible the actual continuity of a binary system: sophisticated bits of the data-processing era are rendered by the three artists involved, into some fundamental oppositions in space and time.
The directed impulses constitute a phenomenon in itself: inside the relatively isolated context of the gallery - a former hotel - from the street, a movement in continuous TIC TAC between the binomials on/off, opened and closed, interior and external, reality and reflexion, determines the rhythm of the exhibition.
Emotive and sensitive awkwardness with which the binary system seeks a productive relationship with reality is not felt like handicap or threat, but like an artistic possibility.
Bram Van Damme. |
