Antoine Van Impe
As a visual artist, I indiscriminately combine media and communication techniques as diverse as drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, audiovisual techniques, telecommunications, web techniques and more. I use these materials together to research and question the discrepancies in communication, expression and perception. I emphasize the relationships and tangential gaps between these different phenomena and experiences of being. More than an exposition of facts and effects, my work is as much a proposal to cognitive processes as it is an appeal and motivation to an imaging consciousness. I group my works under the heading of Ensembles, developing each one on the basis of a common entity, chosen arbitrarily (object, word, expression, sentence, sensation, feeling, idea…). A subject that I will deliberately and obsessively maintain, decline and deconstruct through multiple texts, images and representations, of which I will retain and present only those charged with a plausible inevitability. This approach enables me to apprehend the evolution of an associative process as a creative process in its own right. These same observations lead me to experiment with the fields of participation, collaboration, exchange and interactivity at different stages of development. Like a relational art form, but reserving the
intrinsic skills of the work and its introspective properties.
“It is also necessary to look at them in their material configuration, to be attentive to the spaces provided between images, to their variations and repetitions, (…), Warburg founds “an iconology of intervals” that no longer focuses on objects, but on tensions, analogies, contrasts or contradictions.”
Aby Warburg et l’image en mouvement. Philippe-Alain Michaud, Éditions Macula, 1998.