Remco Roes

Belgium (residence) °1981
research interests: artistic research, dialogue, visual essay, space
affiliation: Hasselt University
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Remco Roes is an artist and a postdoctoral researcher at Hasselt University. His artistic practice departs from an archive of observations, traces and spaces that he happens to find on his path. Working attentively amongst these fragments results in spatial installations, artist publications and video works, balancing between speaking and remaining silent, intention and coincidence, purposeful work and the usefulness of residues and accidents. Roes’ research focusses on disclosing the spatial concepts within his artistic practice ( (secular sacred) (space) (in digital times) ), as well as exploring the visual essay and vulnerable dialogue as vehicles for artistic research communication.

 

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  • Lost + Found: a recollection of the studio (last edited: 2020) author(s): Remco Roes, koenraad claes This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    In 2016 Remco Roes and Koenraad Claes formed the collective intermerz (NTRMRZ): an uncontrolled 'quatre mains' that culminates in an aesthetic dissonance. Recently NTRMRZ produced a series of works that came into being by copying an almost coincidental original with meticulous precision, but in a different geographical location. By forcing themselves into such protocols NTRMRZ's publications and videos operate as time-based sculptures, made out of their surroundings, cast by an identical mould, but inevitably enriched by the grain and interference encountered on the journey. However vigorous the attempt to copy, the subject matter inevitably escapes its holder, and in doing so alters the form of past en future copies. 'Lost and found: a recollection of the studio' (2020) consists of two videos that approach K and R's studios as a terrain to mimic previous urban journeys. In the process, the individual working spaces merge into one optical realm. As a way of enhancing this intertwining, the works are meant to be played simultaneously. By following a set of instructions the viewer is invited to create a spatial and visual connection that functions as a personal dyptich.
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