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Berend Strik
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Berend Strik: Thixotropy at Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke
Stephane Simoens is pleased to present the new solo exhibition by Berend Strik. The exhibition's title, Thixotropy, originates in chemistry, and describes the property exhibited by certain gels of becoming liquid when stirred or shaken. It is an apt metaphor for the effect of Berend Strik's idiosyncratic visual practice on the realm of the photograph and that of the world of imagery at large, which constitute such a significant part of the contemporary collective subconscious. Strik impacts and delicately thwarts this visual culture, tackling the image head-on, and explores, expands and reconfigures it, whilst gently coercing it to respond to his own visual demands. He releases the photograph from its fixity and gives it back the tactility and specificity it lost with the onset of the instant reproducibility (and a co...
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Stephane Simoens is pleased to present the new solo exhibition by Berend Strik. The exhibition's title, Thixotropy, originates in chemistry, and describes the property exhibited by certain gels of becoming liquid when stirred or shaken. It is an apt metaphor for the effect of Berend Strik's idiosyncratic visual practice on the realm of the photograph and that of the world of imagery at large, which constitute such a significant part of the contemporary collective subconscious.
Strik impacts and delicately thwarts this visual culture, tackling the image head-on, and explores, expands and reconfigures it, whilst gently coercing it to respond to his own visual demands. He releases the photograph from its fixity and gives it back the tactility and specificity it lost with the onset of the instant reproducibility (and a co...