rachel zeba
because you are so am i

because you are so am i is a photographic project constructed in layers, a collection of moments and movements. the final visuals seek to represent the power of transformed realities that interact.

These photographs, which were already perfect for me, surprised me and became something more: a blending, a mixing, a melting pot of colors, shapes, and signs. something that's not very legible. It is no longer a question of reason, but of feeling. and perhaps it was necessary to tear apart the image, too clear, too literal, too accessible, to reveal what's hidden in it, its substance. Its destruction allows its transcendence.

The physical expression of the tearing, chaotic presence added to the bodies captured in the image itself, evokes the street billboard torn apart by strangers in a moment of greed, love, revolt, compulsion, impulse, rage, carelessness...

This project, like many of my works in general, revolves around faith and trust, certainly in the process, but here the element of light brings the glorification of the body, of the other.

I want to illuminate the traces of life as proof of your existence. Your existence proves my existence.

rachel zeba

rachel zeba is a visual artist based in Brussels. Her work is based on personal experience and reflection. Using photography, video, sculpture, and installation, constantly questions the Other. Its presence, its origins, its emotions. She creates hybrid forms that straddle the line between the real and the strange, the figurative and the abstract, the tangible and the spiritual. Her creative process involves obsession, play, and surrender.Pictures of the intervention © Thomas Hitchcock

Abstract Entities

Abstract Entities, Thomas Hitchcock's first institutional solo exhibition in Belgium, delves into the intersections of Art Nouveau and Europe’s fin de siècle cultural period and contemporary technological developments. Situated within the context of today’s global capitalism and digital shifts, he critically examines and juxtaposes themes of exploitation within a broader movement of retreating into interiority and dream-like realms.

Hitchcock’s newly created sculptural installation, within KIOSK’s former anatomical theater, also functions as an open platform for temporary interventions by Belgian art students. A multitude of different interventions across several media will take place throughout the exhibition period, including performances, music, collective readings, talks, workshops, discussions, body practices, poetry, and screenings – starting with the first contributions during the opening.

Practical information about the exhibition

• Opening on Saturday the 25th of January 2025, between 3 and 6 p.m.
• Open daily between 12.00 and 6.00 p.m.
• Open until 16.03.2025
  
• Free entrance
• Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

This exhibition was produced in collaboration with Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, and with the support of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES) of Austria.