Glowachrome Garden
A spatial performance setting in which photographic images, scenography and sound engage in a dialogue with each other, the spectator and the performers. While scenes are set in motion, a dark landscape opens up.
In the first phase of the creation process of Glowachrome Garden, Evelien Cammaert started photographing on a 35mm slide film. A medium that is both direct and mysterious. Direct, because it produces a transparent image that becomes visible, simply by shining a light through it. However, from the moment of recording until projected by a slide projector, the image has traveled a mysterious path. A slide film, or reversal film, undergoes a complex development process in the darkroom and the result differs from lab to lab, from light source to light source and from the plane and frame onto or through which it is projected.
The experience of the photographic image, influenced by different circumstances, atmospheres and temporal and spatial conditions is the field of research in this piece.
The border between concrete reality and subjective abstraction is alternately shown and blurred, while you walk into an ever-changing universe of painting-like images, abstract planes, frames, shadows and distortions.
Artist
Residencies
Les Brigittines
Kaaitheater