Isa Bongers (2001, NL) is an interdisciplinary artist researching and reflecting on visual culture and the way images appear to us in public space. Through observations, reflections, writing, videos and conversations she aims to understand and challenge the images that persuade us to crave unattainable realities.
Isa Bongers (2001, NL) is an interdisciplinary artist researching and reflecting on visual culture and the way images appear to us in public space. Through observations, reflections, writing, videos and conversations she aims to understand and challenge the images that persuade us to crave unattainable realities.
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Where I Pass By And Become
How do we
communicate with each other visually in public space? The video work and installation ‘Where I
Pass By And Become’ is part of extensive artistic research and addresses one of
the themes related to this fundamental question. ‘Where I Pass By And Become’
focuses on the encounter that takes place on the border between private space
and public space, an ever-changing encounter that continuously questions the
relation between representation and reality. Every glance, left or right,
initiates the formation of a new relation between passer-by, image and
environment.
A
reflection on top of a reflection on top of a reflection, repeated until everything merges, moves, changes, disturbs, cracks and engages in conversation.
The work, therefore, acts as an opportunity for the viewer to experience a
moment of reflection for themselves, creating a space to be intrigued by
everyday movements and surroundings. To explore, for a brief moment, a reality
in which the glass window of a shop can serve as more than a display of
products: where it can serve as a place of meeting. To critically observe the
visual information presented to us in our immediate environment. How do we
relate to the images we see in our public space? How do they influence us? Can
we engage in conversation and find relationships between ourselves and the
always-present visual monologue?
Exhibited during the ‘AKI Finals’ Graduation Show at AKI Academy of Art and Design from July 5th until July 12th 2024 in Enschede, NL.
A still from the video ‘Where I Pass By And Become’ is also on view as part of open air exhibition ‘VenloVerlicht’ from September 6th 2024 until February 23rd 2025 on the Lingsforterweg in Arcen, NL.
More information on:
https://www.venloverwelkomt.nl/locatie/venloverlicht-isa-bongers/
