PRESENTATION

The Borders

 

I dream of a period when artists met, took the time to have lunch together and shared their ideas, and sometimes even their knowledge.

 

I dream of a more open artistic world. A world where galleries dare to defend emerging artists once again, where collectors take pleasure in discovering young talents, where art fairs proudly display their top picks, where museums plan exhibitions bringing all generations of artists

together.

 

I dream of a more positive world, where beauty once again finds its place in art, and where emotions are shared.

 

Birth of The Borders art movement

 

Abstraction has been the main subject of my work since the very beginning of my career as an artist. My idea has always been to go beyond the limits of photography. It is an approach that can be found in my positioning from my first creation. This approach has become more and more concrete, structured, and conscious with the very practice of painting and the creation of the LikeAPainting series in 2020, during the very particular period of the global Covid-19 pandemic, when everyone was locked down. This series served me as a starting point to create a movement that brings together other artists with joined-up thinking. This project of a new art movement was first announced in my work LikeAPainting in 2021, then in the collective exhibition The Colour of Light at the Mark Rothko Centre in Daugavpils, Latvia, the same year.

 

The movement was born in Belgium, but the roots will definitely be European and may later spread to the whole world.

 

The Borders

 

The Borders is used in English. In the Larousse dictionary, the word ‘border’ is defined as “a delimitation, a limit between two different things”. The theme of borders is strongly linked to the current events of our era. An era marked by the geopolitical fragmentation of the world (territorial disputes, strengthening or closing borders, significant migration flows, etc.). By analogy, this title invites artists to go beyond their comfort zone, to take one step further, to open and widen their borders, to avoid being afraid of the other as a stranger.

 

The goal of The Borders movement is to question and test the limits of abstract photography with other forms of art: play with these limits, cross them, transgress them, experiment with them, make a link with painting, sculpture, etc., encourage exchanges, bring artists together. This movement aims to bring together abstract photography artists whose main work is clearly related to non figurative painting. The resemblance is such that it can sometimes lead the spectator to confusion and loss of reference points.