For ordeal more print, Jelle Martens’ Time Brackets and Veva Leye’s Primordial formed the starting point, supplemented along the way with related works. Over the years, Time Brackets has evolved into a series of thousands of superimposed images which can be described as photographic registrations that combine fragments, reproductions and everyday observations into layered prints. Every print layer operates as a temporary framework bringing together images that only temporarily solidify, overlap and fall apart again. Primordial came into being when a single word presented itself like a kind of Big Bang. Through a simple rule and association, this word initially gave rise to around a hundred (though, in terms of feeling, a seemingly limitless and ever-growing number) of word sequences. These sequences were, in turn, used as material for a montage of new configurations, and so on.
The multi-layered prints of Time Brackets and the expanding word groups of Primordial engage in a polyphonic dialogue within the space of KIOSK; a dialogue composed of various conversations yet one that cannot be reduced to those individual conversations. Image and language tumble along, stumble upon, inviting the reader/viewer to join in somewhere along the way.
