Veva Leye & Jelle Martens
ordeal more print

Time Brackets, the photographic registrations by Jelle Martens, combine fragments, reproductions, and everyday observations in layered prints. Every print layer operates as a temporary framework bringing together images that only temporarily solidify, overlap and fall apart again. How many times can one put one thing on top of another until the original image is no longer visible, and, conversely, how much can one remove from an image until it is unrecognisable?

Primordial by Veva Leye is an expanding universe of text works that initially emerged from a single word through a simple rule—one that the reader or viewer can gradually discover—and that continue to evolve into other works through association and montage. The singularity of the associative movements and the montage (always subjective) give rise to uncannily coagulating formations of words/signifiers that expand and contract in an accordion-like movement, inviting the reader/viewer to be receptive to her own free association.

Although the individual works largely stem from a kind of series, the series do not determine the works. Rather, the underlying methods open up a space within which—through operations, shifts, and deviations from the “rules”—the works can continue to develop and give rise to yet other works that circulate around them. Building on the initial temporary, spatial unfolding of ordeal more print in the eponymous exhibition at KIOSK, Jelle Martens and Veva Leye seek ways to simultaneously bring together their multilayered prints and text works and allow them to function separately. In this publication, text and image do not interact in an illustrative or referential manner, but rather idiosyncratically tumble along, stumble upon.

• Authors: Veva Leye & Jelle Martens
• Format: 21 x 27 cm
• Print: 300
• Publisher: INFINITIF
• ISBN: ISBN 9789083762012
• Depot #: D/2026/15625/03
• Price: €30

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