Floor Leemans
Floor Leemans has one foot in the digital world as a graphic designer/teacher and one foot in the visual arts with her autonomous work. Fascinations are: patterns in the city, traces of life and use.
It is a feeling of vulnerability of the environment and absence of beauty. And the idea of infinity of things. That something new emerges from far-reaching matter. Nowadays she mainly works on paper with (colour) pencil, ballpoint pen and tape.
Floor: "When I'm drawing, one line lures the other. It is an ongoing process of development. Gumming can be done, but every line is drawn in the moment. Then step back and look. Sometimes I have made a whole series of drawings, but I don't know what they mean as a loner. At such a moment connections can arise between the drawings and suddenly I see connections and draw them together: a composite drawing comes to life in this way".
For a few years now, poetry has been connecting the constant stream of changing thoughts while drawing. The literal can be the subject, as something that gets in the way. (Mis)communication, connection and detachment, remnants of something that remains or just starts all over again.
Floor Leemans Works&Projects
Bianca Farmer
In my concierge's room
I write stories, poems,
novels and commissioned work.
In my concierge's room
I practice gigs, prepared
I prescribe lessons.
When I look outside
I make up the lives
of the neighbors.
Serge Game
In recent drawings Serge Game portrays a dystopian world populated by residents who seem obsessed with (blood) lust. Flames with human traits and vengeful totem poles fight their disagreements in a landscape littered with wreckage, bones and trophies.
Not always immediately noticeable, but systematically woven through the works, are fragile bodies hanging above the smoking rubble. Although in stark contrast to all warmongering, it remains unclear whether they are victims, accomplices or the souls of the fallen.
Game's three-dimensional work can easily be traced back to his drawings and paintings. Monumental structures, organic or not, rope and bondage, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic elements in what most resembles abstract creatures/organisms, and constructions inspired by reliquaries find their way to these sculptures. Sculptural language that winks at comics and manga is combined with influences from Western mythology and references to pre-Columbian and Oceanic artifacts.
It produces a world of sculptures and figures with grotesque characteristics, motionless monumental forms and enigmatic objects of which it remains unclear whether their (mystical) function is definitively stranded or only slumbering.
Gerben Agterberg
Gerben Agterberg (1982) Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, Breda
As an animation filmmaker I have been working on (feature) films, children's series, theatre performances and commercials since 2007. I specialize in stop-motion animation, design and production of sets and props. I also make autonomous, kinetic installations. The fascination for movement and nature that originated in my childhood is at the heart of my making.
"Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.
Alexander Calder
Photo:
Bridge: Still from stop-motion animated film 'Bridge' (2010)
