Visual essay: recollections of an allegorist

Abstract

This visual essay departs from an artistic practice and explores a number of collections, various spatial contexts they were sourced from and a retrospective exhibition that united them into one large installation. Through visual argumentation the essay sheds light on the way a series of objects and interior spaces interacted over a period of several years.

Keywords:

• Collector
• allegory
• visual essay
• artistic research
• installation

Notes

1 These figures are entirely dedicated to the retrospective. Figures 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 contain material from the retrospective, mixed with other installations.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Remco Roes

Remco Roes is an artist and a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at Hasselt University. He completed a master degree in Architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven, followed the Transmedia postgraduate program at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and subsequently completed his practise-based PhD at Hasselt University in 2016. His artistic practice departs from a collection of found fragments, spaces and observations that are forced into temporary order whenever they are made into a work. The results (installations, artist publications, video works) balance between speaking and remaining silent, between intention and coincidence, between purposeful work and the uselessness of residual space. Email: [email protected]