Drawing from seemingly endlessly proliferating word sequences—which arise from a single word through a simple rule and through association—Veva Leye creates montages that present the same words in completely different ways. Uncannily coagulating, these word images expand and contract in an accordion-like movement. A similar rhythm characterizes Jelle Martens’ (photo)graphic registrations that combine fragments, reproductions and trivial observations into layered prints and drawings. Every print layer, every drawing operates as a temporary frame bringing together images that only temporarily solidify, overlap, and fall apart again. Image and language tumble along, stumble upon. Letters form words form images reading looking.

Throughout July and August, Ommery De Zutter inhabited KIOSK as artist in residence. While KIOSK remained closed to the public during the summer, Ommery De Zutter, used the anatomical theater as a map for creating an immersive VR experience. 

Ommery De Zutter’s exhibition de Wereldgeest, resulting from this residency, opens on 12 September and will be on view until 4 October.

What happens when creationbecomes materially endless?

When skills as a means of creation begin to play a secondary role? 

How would expression unfold then?

In what way would it be different? 

Is it valid?

Does it remain valid when it continues to be about itself?

Or does creation then become too entangled in itself?

And if that is the case, why shouldn’t it simply be allowed to

When does creation become useful to the Other?

Isn’t creation emerging from creation itself precisely creation?

Does it make sense to investigate the same idea from emptiness when someone has already taken it up from an established position?

Can we accept it when creation is no longer intended for us? 

Where does the balance with the Other lie during creation? 

Is the imbalance of time and energy with the Other not precisely what is necessary for creation?

Are we also the Other? Are we without the Other?

Does thinking about creation and the Other disrupt the existing balance?

Isn’t it simply obvious that the next forms of creation will move beyond our own abstraction, emerging from semantic-geometric constructions that surpass our own understanding and give rise to new realities?