Published with permission by the artist

Those places within those spaces that are contagious with one another


By means of basic building materials Hans Wuyts constructs installations which give a first impression of enclosed man-sized pinhole box cameras. These improvised constructions support video projections and mechanical movements which lay bare aspects of time and space.

Reflections concerning art, the artistic calling, and his own fascinations are the focal points through which his installations of image, movement, and space come into being. Through an endless chain these components sense each other without actual ‘actualization’, or without having to merge into a univocal, converging image. The intended purpose of ‘one single image’ constructs a chain of a multitude of images by means of spatial aspects which evoke that ‘one’ single image as being absent.
Scale varieties, slow-motion video scenes, abstracted architecture, driven mechanics or scintillating canvasses seamlessly merge as a deconstructed principle in a disclosure. From this disclosing perspective, the shift from an original context mirrors into a continual shift between architecture, sculpture and the art of painting in the installations themselves.

His aesthetic convictions and visual strategies are situated on these transgressions of boundaries. By means of different installations he inquires into the duality of an open or closed character of a specific boundary. He either emphasizes the obstruction or the open character of the installation or chooses not to so while the viewer is positioned opposite the structure.


Joris Vermeulen, Antwerpen 2006