10.10.24 – 20.10.24, Ellen De Vos, Lunar Echoes

Animation film is alive and well, crackling with as much diversity as quality. For the second year in a row, on the occasion of Film Fest Gent, the animation film studio of KASK & Conservatorium is organising an exhibition that widens the view on animation, both as film and as a visual art form. This year, we invite artist Ellen De Vos, who creates a world between film, installation, sculpture and drawing with her new work Lunar Echoes.

With the exhibition Lunar Echoes, De Vos puts ‘the moon’ in a new and personal light. On the one hand, as a custom-made three-dimensional representation of the satellite in papier-mâché and graphite drawing form and, on the other, as the main character in her film CYCLUS. Balancing between animation and experimental film, the film offers viewers an immersive, budget-friendly ‘space journey’. Lunar Echoes began with a series of detailed drawings of the moon as a study, these evolved into sculptures and eventually everything came together in the CYCLUS film. This creative process is atypical for animation, where normally the storyboard precedes the final product. With De Vos, however, the work grows organically, with each medium reinforcing and complementing the next.

Ellen De Vos is a visual artist who specialises in drawing, installations and (animation) films. De Vos moves between different media, from drawing to film, each time seeking a balance between the traditional and the innovative. Her work invites a journey through mysterious fantasy worlds, where fiction and reality merge, and the boundaries of the known are explored.

Opening Thursday evening 10 October at 19:00 with a performance by COLLAB COALITION