Residue Allure
This investigation explores the overall need to hide residue by exposing it in fictitious scenarios. The attempt to recreate a photograph — taken in the industrial site of Buda, Brussels — of a Eurobox filled with black matter served as a gateway to developing landscapes that explore the interactions between residue and matter.
Through the systematic performance of a process that creates oil-contaminated landscapes, an assembly of trials started to originate. The capture of this process allowed for the outcome to be exposed both as still (print) and fluid (video). The landscapes are contained, however, allow to submerge into, consequently creating a tension between an action that fixes form and one that doesn’t.
Three interactions were explored in this exhibition: absorption (paper + oil), invasion (cement + oil), and repulsion (water + oil) (from top to bottom). Each interaction originates a different outcome, from the two materials becoming one to total detachment from another, with a limit condition in between. Three trials were done per interaction, each varying in the quantity of oil — 1/3L, 2/3L, and 1L (from left to right).
