Nadir
a two‑part work emerging from the dismantling of Move
Presented in the group exhibition 'By the Sweat of Your Brow', curated by Frans van Lent, at the Urban Explorers Festival, Dordrecht (2014).
‘Nadir’ emerged from the dismantling of the installation ‘Move’. The red pigment and mopping water collected during this process were preserved and later frozen into an ice object that slowly melted in the exhibition space. The work unfolds as a temporary form shaped by movement, residue and transformation.
Move | Deconstruct
During the dismantling of Move, the act itself became a new point of departure. The remaining traces, pigment, mopping water, marks on the floor, were kept as material. At the same time, images emerged in direct response to the actions unfolding on the floor; these floor‑based traces were photographed and later digitally altered, from which a video was composed.
Nadir
In installation ’Nadir’ the previously frozen red mopping water, collected during the dismantling and stored in buckets, returns to the space as it thaws and seeks the lowest point, unfolding as a situation that sharpens attention to what is physically happening.The video opens a contrasting, cosmic field in which the photographic remnants expand into an imagined space. Together they open a space of awareness between observing the real and shaping meaning through inner imagination.
The installation was accompanied by a video composed of digitally altered photographs from the dismantling process. Through successive transformations, the images detach from their origin and unfold into an imagined, non‑physical field. The video opens a contrasting, cosmic space in which the photographic remnants expand beyond the real, creating a tension between observing what happened and shaping meaning through inner imagination. Together, the installation and the video form a single work in which a dissolving physical form confronts an expanding, imagined image field.
