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1600yearsOfLight_field

1600 Years of Light *field

2019

This yellow field inscribes in the tradition of the Monochrome but does not find its raison d’être in pure abstraction but rather as a simple state of reality. Its pigment, the uranium ore constantly emits energy into space, leading to its intense yellow colour to vanish, turning into black in 1600 years.

OhMyGod

Oh My God

2018

The artwork captures cosmic rays and transforms these messengers of another time way before our existence into light, sound and text. In this way the artwork connects us to the scale of space and time by making the invisible visible.
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WhatGodHathWrought

What God hath wrought

2017

16 telegraphs sent the first message transmitted in the US on May 24, 1844, continuously from one station to the other. Their sounds fill the space, and rolls of paper drift on the floor tracing their exchange. In time, collisions and errors appear, altering the original message of 'See what God has done'.

SignalToNoise

Signal To Noise

2012

This machine consists of 512 split-flaps spinning at random speeds putting the spectator into the center of a never ending stream of letters that occasionally form words. The familiar clicking sound may evoke nostalgia for the pre-digital jet age or provide us with deeper insights into logic and meaning.

art installations by the Belgian art studio LAb[au] working at the crossing of art&language, art&architecture in the tradition of concrete, conceptual, kinetic and digital art

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