Glaciers in Sint-Niklaas
Christine Vuegen, Stef Van Bellingen, Coup de Ville, Attracted by another level. Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Gent, Belgium (2013)
"Karen Vermeren connects processes that, deep in- side the earth, form the landscape with processes in the construction of society. (...) She couples a specific landscape to a given location where she is at work. It is a representation and also an environment wherein the visitor is introduced. At the fault line between the abstract and the figurative, a special form of landscape painting art is created, mostly on derelict walls and windowpanes. Using tape, pigments, acrylic paint, and plastic, she evokes geological processes that are in perpetual motion. They intermingle with ribbons of tape which she uses to depict formal elements of the architecture or the structure behind the window.
(...) The transposition of this specific geological location to the Stationsstraat and the nearby Ankerstraat in Sint-Niklaas symbolises the ‘glaciation’ of both these shopping streets. On the display windows of (vacant) stores, that are often plastered white as if they are temporarily in a frozen limbo, Karen brings variations of one and the same landscape. The natural phenomenon of thawing, shifting and freezing finds its parallel in the economic fluctuations. Depending on the economy, demography or changing consumer behaviour such as online buying and selling, this also manifests itself as a dynamic process. The project, which will last for a number of months, displays such shifts and is itself shifting. Some of the paintings will already have disappeared when Coup de Ville opens as vacant stores have become occupied."
"Karen Vermeren connects processes that, deep in- side the earth, form the landscape with processes in the construction of society. (...) She couples a specific landscape to a given location where she is at work. It is a representation and also an environment wherein the visitor is introduced. At the fault line between the abstract and the figurative, a special form of landscape painting art is created, mostly on derelict walls and windowpanes. Using tape, pigments, acrylic paint, and plastic, she evokes geological processes that are in perpetual motion. They intermingle with ribbons of tape which she uses to depict formal elements of the architecture or the structure behind the window.
(...) The transposition of this specific geological location to the Stationsstraat and the nearby Ankerstraat in Sint-Niklaas symbolises the ‘glaciation’ of both these shopping streets. On the display windows of (vacant) stores, that are often plastered white as if they are temporarily in a frozen limbo, Karen brings variations of one and the same landscape. The natural phenomenon of thawing, shifting and freezing finds its parallel in the economic fluctuations. Depending on the economy, demography or changing consumer behaviour such as online buying and selling, this also manifests itself as a dynamic process. The project, which will last for a number of months, displays such shifts and is itself shifting. Some of the paintings will already have disappeared when Coup de Ville opens as vacant stores have become occupied."
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