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Elias Ghekiere


My practice is largely shaped by the stylistic and technical side of making and how these can inform art and life. Fluctuating between painting, drawing, photography and sculpture, I attempt to structure tensions that exist between modes of representation, materiality and technique. 

What started as a fascination for texture and form, has since moved to a systematic focus on the perception of crafts and its place in modern and postmodern narratives. The term craft can signify two different fields within visual culture. On the one hand it refers to the professional occupation of researching and developing techniques related to a medium or material. On the other hand, it can summon the idea of handicrafts which developed as a form of leisure within a social framework. 

The stubbornness to retain a plenitude of styles and modes of expression in an attempt to achieve a harmony, root in a desire to question taxonomies that lead to cultural hierarchization. By including techniques and styles from decorative arts (amongst others) into my personal syntax, I propose a composition that is built on principles of relationality/proportionality between components rather than on stylistic compatibility.



Flanders Arts Institute

Expertise centre for performing arts, music and visual arts.