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Alexandra Dementieva - Aernoudt Jacobs
In Netwerk, center for contemporary art, the two person exhibition is a well-tried strategy. In 2005 Netwerk presented a collaboration between the artists Koenraad Dedobbeleer and Kristof Van Gestel, entitled 'Raymond Vanderzande'. And earlier this year Bert Danckaert and Lynne Cohen showed the differences and especially the similarities between their photographic visions in the exhibition 'Side Effects'. Alexandra Dementieva (RU) and Aernoudt Jacobs (BE) are next. Netwerk invites both artists because they have been collaborating intensively during the last years. For instance, as a sound artist Jacobs composed scores for the videos and installations of Dementieva. This is however not what the artists do in this exhibition. Instead of working together on one project, they each show their work separately. They willfully go against expectations and against a stereotypical perception of their work. Their work is far more complex than the the traditional schism between categories of image and sound. By each presenting an installation separately, they emphasize qualities that exceed the relation between image and sound. Dementieva as well as Jacobs seem to take a starting point from a form of perception, an expressly human perspective in the observation of the world surrounding us. In the work of Dementieva this leads to the the creation of multimedia environments, in which the spectator is invited to participate. She explores the boundaries between the real and a virtual world, between close-up and panorama, between subjective perception and objective reality. In Netwerk she shows the installations 'Cube' in collaboration with Siegfried Canto and ‘Screen’, both from her ‘Limited Spaces’-series. In a similar twilight-zone, a mixture between the objectivity of a sound recording and the subjectivity of perception, Aernoudt Jacobs presents the sound installation 'Phantom Melodies'. Jacobs does not consider sounds to be absolute or fixed data; sound is the result of concrete if not mental filters, which he chooses to accentuate or eliminate. In 'Phantom Melodies' sound becomes a spatial, almost tangible phenomenon. Jacobs' installation as well as that of Dementieva can be elaborated by a performance.
Websites
www.alexdementieva.org
www.tmrx.org
16/09/06 > 21/10/06