#benjamin verhoeven

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Benjamin Verhoeven (b° 1990) ‘Sculptural Movement: Chapter I & II’, 2016 Stop-motion video from scanned images, 12:17min. https://wedem.be/artists/benjamin/

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Benjamin Verhoeven  50000 scans (Work in progress)

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Benjamin Verhoeven

Scanned movements at  the Foyer of Cinematek in Brussel

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Moving Perspectives

on the exhibition walk Changement de point de Vue with works by Matea Bakula, France Distraction, Ariane Loze, Tuur Marinus, Diane Rabreau, Gaëtan Rusquet, Sarah & Charles, Nick Steur, Rinus Van de Velde, Benjamin Verhoeven and Sabbo Verleye The exhibition walk Changement de point de Vue combines installations, prints, sculptures and videos by artists that generate a shift in our perspective and put us into motion. Whether in direct physical exploration of the world, or in more abstract experimentation of our own senses, it seems as if there’s never a final viewpoint that succeeds to capture the whole complexity of reality. Diane Rabreau invites us to navigate guided by other senses than sight with her blackbox-car La Boîture. And in her second installation La Plage aux Souches she triggers our imagination with her travel stories based on different modes of perceiving our environment. But also Ariane Loze continuously shifts perspective in Movies on my Own, a movie project where she produces a shortfilm in 24h, executing all the roles herself. And Sabbo Verleye plants a subtle sign that reads ‘photo moment’ in an everyday location such as the reception desk. In the hall Benjamin Verhoeven manipulated an existing video of Picasso painting by scanning it, generating an extra layer of movement to the master’s pencil strokes, Nick Steur presents a new installation of balancing rocks that seems monumental and extremely fragile at the same time, and Gaëtan Rusquet choreographs a camera through his body and his surroundings, emphasizing the continuity between the inner and outer world. And also Sarah & Charles refer to cinematic effects by printing the name of a sound effect, triggering our imagination without an image. In the foyer Matea Bakula composes abstract compositions in various scales where textures and patterns seem to become a kind of map that resists framing. The wall drawing by Rinus Vandevelde lucidly refers to the uneven surfaces of the building. Tuur Marinus presents a series of prints that analyse animal movements by using time-lapse photography. And in the bookshop you will discover an installation by France Distraction that prints answers to a question yet to be determined.

Written in December 2015 as exhibition text for the exhibition walk Changement de point de Vue at Beursschouwburg Brussels, December 18-19 2015 More info

Photo’s

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Benjamin Verhoeven in ‘Penultimate Shot’ at Het paviljoen

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Benjamin Verhoeven - Scanned Movement #1 (2014)

Stop-motion video from scanned images, (loop)

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Benjamin Verhoeven -shifting- 

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Benjamin Verhoeven 8 of his 20 volumes are available for sale on the Malenki-table at ANTWERP ACADEMY ART BOOK FAIR Each volume contains 50 prints that he scanned during the Hisk Open Studio's. Check it out!!!