FORWARD ESCAPE INTO THE PAST
FORWARD ESCAPE INTO THE PAST
FORWARD ESCAPE INTO THE PAST
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Instalation view, Forward Escape Into the Past, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
"In Forward Escape into the Past, the artist is showing photographs from his two most recent projects, which are situated at the intersection of nostalgia and visionary utopia. The title of the exhibition suggests an alternative future for humanity and in so doing links the two photographic series thematically. Forward Escape into the Past can be understood as a future far removed from technological progress, in which human beings seek a connection with their past and with nature."
- Valerie Verhack, in exhibition text for FORWARD ESCAPE INTO THE PAST at M-Museum Leuven (BE)
INSIDE OUT
2017
FRAMED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
191,4 x 153 cm
Instalation view, Forward Escape Into the Past, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
Peter Rabbit, Drop City ,
New York: The Olympia Press,
Inc., 1971
The installation in De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, NL) consisted out of materials found in the building of De Brakke Grond itself; old theater decor panels including any wear and tear, and scraps of wood. The reusing of materials mirrors the lifestyles of Drop City residents, an autarkic, utopian movement which was based in Colorado. Living as hunter-gatherers they created their utopian community using locally sourced materials.
PSILOCYBIN CUBENSIS
2017
FRAMED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
50 x 40 cm
CLEAR LIGHT
2018
FRAMED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
80 x 63 cm
Terrence Mckenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution, Bantam, 1993
"The references to McKenna’s ideas prompted Campers to take studio shots of these mushrooms (Psylocybin cubensis, 2017) and to travel to the Tassili plateau in South Algeria. There he photographed details of rock carvings of cattle, whose manure created fertile soil for the mushrooms (Cow, 2017 and Gazelle, 2017). McKenna used these rock carvings to support his hypothesis in the book Food of the Gods (1992). This same theory also forms the starting point for Campers to make indirect contentual links and to experiment with abstraction. Following on from the psychedelic light shows of the early 1960s, which accompanied electronic music or avant-garde theatre, he photographed objects such as clock glasses on a lightbox projector filled with oil, pigment and alcohol (Liquid Light, 2017)." - Valerie Verhack in the exhibition text for FORWARD ESCAPE INTO THE PAST, M-museum Leuven (BE) 2018
GAZELLE
2015
FRAMED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
50 x 40 cm
Instalation view, Forward Escape Into the Past, M-Museum, Leuven (BE)
ACCESS TO TOOLS
2017
FRAMED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
63 x 80 cm
For M Leuven I designed a setting consisting of walls constructed from blocks of hemp. Although mechanically produced, they are shaped and pressed according to centuries-old principle. The material is durable and very light making it ideal for building partition walls or as insulation. In this sense, the building material is in keeping with ecology, sustainability, technology ingenuity and a return to nature: all themes that form a thread running through
the exhibition.
HOTSPRING BUNKER DAVE
2014
FRAMED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
191,4 x 153 cm
LIQUID LIGHT
2017
FRAMED C-PRINT
80 x 63 cm
NO PLACE LIKE ZOME
2014
FRAMED C-PRINT
125 x 100 cm
Detail, Salvation mountain, 2014
EARTH-SINKING-INTO-WATER
2014
FRAMED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
191,4 x 153 cm
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WALLPAPER DIMENSION ACCORDING TO SPACE
SILOMAN
2017
ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
125 x 100 cm
STORAGE MATRIX
2013
ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
32 x 24,8 cm
UNTITLED
2015
ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
125 x 100 cm
Detail, Psilocybin Cubensis, 2017
THRONE
2015
ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
125 x 100 cm
JUNKER HOUSE
2014
ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
80 x 63 cm
COW
2015
ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
191,4 x 153 cm
THE SUN WORKS
2017
ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
160 x 128 cm
SWEAT LODGE
2014
FRAMED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT
50 x 40 cm