{"id":95709,"date":"2021-04-28T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T08:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/?post_type=extra&p=95709"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:48:43","slug":"b61","status":"publish","type":"extra","link":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/extra\/b61\/","title":{"rendered":"Anouk Kruithof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

La fluidit\u00e9 et la porosit\u00e9 correspondent bien \u00e0 la pratique d’Anouk Kruithof, qui traverse d’ailleurs all\u00e8grement diff\u00e9rentes disciplines au gr\u00e9 des projets. Cette porosit\u00e9 d’esprit et d’approche sous-tend \u00e9galement de fa\u00e7on sp\u00e9cifique les \u0153uvres du corpus de Trans-Human Nature<\/em> que nous pr\u00e9sentons ici. Ils sont le r\u00e9sultat d’une exp\u00e9rience de vie sp\u00e9cifique, et de la d\u00e9cision de s’installer (en partie) et de construire une maison dans une bourgade au fin fond du Surinam, Botopasi en l’occurrence, accessible uniquement par voie fluviale, afin de se rapprocher d’un id\u00e9al davantage en accord avec ses engagements \u00e9cologiques.

En l’occurrence, la photographie occupe une place de choix dans les travaux qu’elle y a d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s, dans une pratique stratifi\u00e9e et construite, mais d\u00e9pourvue de toute manipulation digitale. L’eau devient ici le vecteur par excellence de cette superposition des formes et des univers, dans un continuum de formes fluides en dissolution et r\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rations constantes.

S’y dessine aussi une sorte d’arch\u00e9ologie du futur, mais d’un futur post ou, plut\u00f4t, transhumain, appr\u00e9hend\u00e9 du point de vue de la nature, d’une nature et\/ou d’un univers cr\u00e9\u00e9 par ce dernier qui survivraient \u00e0 l’humain, ou ne lui laisseraient qu’une place marginale, tout en en conservant ou en y projetant des traces m\u00e9morielles.

Cette stratification toute en porosit\u00e9 d’images et de registres se d\u00e9c\u00e8le dans les remarquables tirages photographiques que nous pr\u00e9sentons : d’Aquatronic <\/em>\u00e0 Brain Power<\/em>, Cornerstone<\/em> en passant par Mind your Rock<\/em>, la figure du masque anthropomorphe et\/ou techno-futuriste s’y dessine en arri\u00e8re-plan comme incrust\u00e9 et int\u00e9gr\u00e9 \u00e0 l’\u00e9l\u00e9ment naturel.

L’installation se compl\u00e8te d’un papier peint en angle qui nous invite \u00e0 d\u00e9coder la nature triomphante afin d’y d\u00e9celer dans ses interstices la pr\u00e9sence humaine qui pourrait encore y subsister. Un sol de gazon de synth\u00e8se, et Transparencies (concealment)<\/em>, un buste en plexi de forme humaine, arborant une impression fantomatique en inkjet print<\/em> en polycarbonate, nous rappellent de fa\u00e7on encore plus explicite que cette nature du futur ne pourra que m\u00e9taboliser et\/ou co-exister avec l’h\u00e9ritage de l’humanit\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fluidity and porosity are key terms in the practice of Anouk Kruithof, an artist who works in various disciplines, depending on the project. In a specific sense, this porosity of spirit and approach also underlies Trans-Human Nature<\/em>, the body of work presented here. It is the result of a particular life experience, including the decision to settle (part-time) and build a house in Botopasi, a remote village in Surinam, accessible only by river, in order to get closer to an ideal more in line with her ecological commitments.

In this case, photography occupies a prominent place in the works she has developed there, in a layered and constructed practice that is nevertheless devoid of any digital manipulation. Water becomes the vector par excellence of this superimposition of forms and universes, in a continuum of fluid forms in constant dissolution and regeneration.

A kind of archaeology of the future also emerges here, but it is a post or, rather, trans-human future, apprehended from the point of view of nature, of a nature and\/or a universe thus created which would seemingly outlive humanity, or would relegate humans to a marginal place, while preserving or projecting memorial traces of them.

This porous stratification of images and registers can be seen in the remarkable photographic prints on display here: from Aquatronic<\/em> to Brain Power<\/em>, Cornerstone<\/em> to Mind your Rock<\/em>, the figure of the anthropomorphic and\/or techno-futurist mask appears in the background as if embedded in the natural elements.

The installation is completed with a wallpapered corner that invites us to decode this triumphant nature in order to detect, in its interstices, the human presence that could still exist there. A synthetic turf floor, and Transparencies (concealment)<\/em>, a plexiglass bust of a human form draped with a ghostly impression in polycarbonate inkjet print, remind us even more explicitly that this nature of the future can only metabolize and\/or co-exist with the legacy of humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-95709","extra","type-extra","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra\/95709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/extra"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}