A.I.R extension#01

A.I.R extension#01 was presented at ART Brussels (2006) as a one–man show for Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp. The installation integrated a metal&wood construction and two video projections. It investigates an architectural model, using reflection (mirror) and framing devices (window) as tools to disclose the viewpoint of the beholder.

While projecting video footage of the refurbishment of their Brussels loft, the artists never show direct images of those spaces. The spaces of the building are revealed through translations of the imagery to other media. They selected a series of stills from their raw video footage, to be re-shot in combination with projections of quotations from lifestyle, design and architecture magazines. These excerpts promote loft living as an ideal format, one to fulfil desires related to identity, status, freedom,…
Both of the video projections reveal a manifest temporal dimension. It looks as if the spaces fold and unfold, appearing and disappearing in front of the visitor. It feels almost like paging a magazine, filled with architectural reveries, a sensation that was underlined by the art fair context in which the work was presented.

2006
a collaborative project of Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans
Video installation - Double projection 17’ looped – color, no sound
Module (2.4 x 2.4 x 2 m) – metal, wood, paper, mirror, plexi

First Presented at ART Brussels, 2006
coproduced by Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp
Produced by Ltd.Ed.vzw