Karien Vandekerkhove – Dear Light, dearest dearest Light

Dear Light, dearest dearest Light by Karien Vandekerkhove
Karien Vandekerkhove’s Dear Light, dearest dearest Light, exploring light, space, memory, and everyday moments through intimate photography and visual poetry.

Belgian photographer and visual artist Karien Vandekerkhove made a photobook with intimate images of light in rooms, landscapes, and everyday objects.

‘It’s simplicity trumps and yet is enchanting. The viewer is caught in a kind of light music, a game of shadows and reflections. The work is somewhere in the intermediate area between dream and reality. She gives the viewer the feeling that time has stopped the moment you enter the installation. As if time ceases to exist for a moment and life outside is postponed for a while. The work never seems finished, never takes on a final shape, but is in a kind of continuous process of becoming.’ – Ann De Meester

Over the past years, Karien Vandekerkhove has created a series of works in a variety of media and uses drawing, installation, scale models, objects, and photography as her primary modes of expression. Sight, smell, space and undoubtedly ‘memory’ are regular actors in Vandekerkhove’s presented projects. In writing and speaking about her work, she often uses terms like ‘almost perfect’ and ‘sharply clean’.

Edit & sequence: Karien Vandekerkhove, Kim Beirnaert
Design: Kim Beirnaert

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November 2022
ISBN: 9789464002102