VARKENSMARKT 10
RUE DU MARCHÉ AUX PORCS
1000 BRUSSELS
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RESCHWILLEIT
THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE WILL NEVER LEAD TO SWAG CITYThe vehement energy released by these paintings is just the peak of their research, which is actually rooted – from the outset – in subversive practices and acts of interference: a need to overcome and deconstruct rules, codes and processes.
The duo’s approach recalls the Situationists’ process of “détournement” used to boycott the status quo of the sociopolitical system during the 1950s. As the Situationists, they subvert machines and deconstruct the language through which images are generated, simply revealing the process as a kind of “screenshot” of an intertwined reality, in which physical and virtual are merged, glued together in a unique, unreachable space.
ReschWilleit’s works are based on an archive of photogrammetry scans reused and thrown out through different processes and modifications which provoke different outcomes. The results are reflections of digital landscapes, memories and experiences in conjunction with associated data, constantly repeated, edited, printed and condensed into folds, where fragments persist and interfere within the same surface.
Information transforms into layered, dense visual fields, printed through malfunctioning or manipulated devices. The result is a new series of imperfections. CMYK nuances are studied and converted into hybrid, artificial forms. Spherical-grids appear progressively elongated, expanded, almost exposed, taking on a material presence within the image surface, no longer as its essence but as a presence in itself.
At dépendance VIEW, ReschWilleit expands their research showing an evolving encounter with space, shifting from their earliest experiments with sprayed color and stitching, into voluminous folds of synthetic materials, coated and crumpled.
Virtual and physical converge, dissolving into hybrid, moving, tactile forms that oscillate between image and material presence.
Text by Matteo Giovanelli
acrylic, pigments, dye sublimation, synthetic fabric and cotton
195 x 195 cm / 76 3/4 x 76 3/4 in
pigments, dye sublimation, synthetic fabric and cotton
160 x 155 cm / 63 x 61 in
pigments, dye sublimation, synthetic fabric and cotton
75 x 75 cm / 29 1/2 x 29 1/2 in
acrylic, pigments, dye sublimation, synthetic fabric and cotton
129 x 129 cm / 50 3/5 x 50 3/5 in
pigments, dye sublimation, synthetic fabric and cotton
72 x 61 cm / 28 3/8 x 24 in
acrylic, pigments, dye sublimation, synthetic fabric and cotton
169 x 149 cm / 66 1/2 x 58 5/8 in
acrylic, pigments, dye sublimation, synthetic fabric and cotton
163 x 140 cm / 64 1/8 x 55 1/8 in
pigments, dye sublimation, synthetic fabric and cotton
53 x 69 cm / 20 7/8 x 27 1/8 in