Geert Goiris’ (°1971) photographs often denote a fundamental tension between man and nature. His collection of architectural and utopian landscapes showing traces of human presence are haunted by an uncanny proximity. Goiris regularly takes the standpoint of the ‘outsider’, thereby creating a tangible distance between photographer and subject.
Geert Goiris lives and works in Antwerp. He travels the world in search of unusual places to interpret into enigmatic images. Inspired by the ambiguous concept of ‘high fidelity’ (technology that makes itself invisible or inaudible, so to speak, to get closer to the ‘original’), he uses large-format analogue cameras and scientific films that are more sensitive than the human eye. Despite the abundant detail, the feeling that something is missing often prevails in his work. This lack of information stimulates the viewer’s imagination. The absence of clear temporal markers creates the feeling that we are viewing the past and future simultaneously.
Goiris’ work is held in the following collections, amongst others: Seattle Art Museum (US), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany), FOMU (Belgium), Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (Spain) and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France).
His camera makes us aware of the paradoxical position of ‘close to and yet far away’. All sense of time and space is banished as he plays with form, abstraction, light and depth. Figures are more likely to appear in his recent work and open story lines are suggested. M brings together a selection of existing photographs and new work never exhibited in Belgium. The selection will be combined with a new analogous slide projection.
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