‘ The idea has not been materialized, but merely visualized. ’

In 1915 Kazimir Malevich painted his ‘Black Square’ on canvas. He wanted to break with the current art of imitating reality and only showed this very reality itself: the materialization of an idea. Antilight goes a step further and shows less than reality itself. It shows the nothing. The idea has not been materialized, but merely visualized.

With this work, I question whether what we see is always what we think we see. Because we don't always believe what we see (in this case, not see), the work periodically reverses itself and reveals our disbelief.

Antilight (2020)

Concept, construction
Gallery wall, antilighting (2 x 2 m)
Exhibition: Gallery Marktsteeg 10, Leiden, 2020