Marius Lehene
Region: West
If landscape is a system of signs that allows the viewer to infer
a certain location for himself relative to those signs, I am
interested in a positioning that is fluid, always changing, while
nevertheless prompted by external references. If, however,
identity is a sort of image we paint of ourselves, I am
interested in the (movie-like) fade moments when one
image becomes an interference of multiple ones. Whether
the frame of reference is physical/optical or the narrating
self, these works approach its precariousness by layering
images, allowing for a visual shifting of references. Memory,
personal archives, and documentary photographs are sources
for my imagery. Because layering encapsulates time and is
ambiguous in its oscillation between revealing and obscuring,
visual accumulation provokes perpetual reorientation. What
happens on canvas becomes of interest to me only when
it functions as a space without place revealing meaning when
set in motion, flowing from one thing to another.