Project Ford Mustang

ect mediates the conjunction of artistic and curatorial practice based on the specific conditions of a residency at Recyclart. May 26th
On May, 26th 2011 the first version of the Project Ford Mustang will be presented by the two visual artists Kindermann/ Hendrickx to open up the discourse. With the simple act of pushing an inoperative Ford Mustang through the urban space they literally push the picture to its gallery but even more a number of questions ahead. With On the Road the two artists superpose a performance as immediate confrontation with the unpredictable dynamics of Brussels public space in specific, with the Ford Mustang as epitome for an abstract and ongoing media representation designing our never-ending believe of individual and collective freedom. June 30th
Project by Jérôme Leuba. Jérôme Leuba's work is mapped onto conflict zones; it explores confrontational territories where diverse codes are at struggle. He has been developing, for several years, and through a variety of media and formats (photograhy, video and installations), an important corpus of works labeled "battlefields". These series seek not only to reveal the covert presence of power structures, but also to challenge the very codes of our strategies of representation. This Swiss artist's images bear a tangle of small collisions They resist the unveilling of a first glance by their ability to stress the ambiguous specificity of any mediatization of reality. Similarly to the magnetic spectrum, his works make visible the field of attraction between opposite forces. His work does not relate directly to the news, but rather to the ways in which images are conceived and fabricated nowadays. In Leuba's world everything has to do with images, and with the reactions they trigger, his work maintains the subtle gab between the visible an the invisible, between what is and what isn't. July 28th
Project by Raffael Waldner. Zurich-based artist Raffael Waldner (*1972) has been developing an extensive and complex body of work called "Car Crash Studies" for ten years. The object of his artistic research is the world of sports and luxury cars. He is interested in the relics that are left by accidents in these expensive vehicles. Using his camera, he systematically documents the results of such chance accidents, the wrecked cars as well as the places of their occurrence. This activity has led to an entire series of photographs, currently over 300 subjects in all. Caught on camera, his arrangements of scrap can be understood as nature mortes—the cruel still lifes of a society that puts its faith in technology and mobility, symbols of loss and death. Waldner's oeuvre is not that of a chronicler but of an object researcher. "My focus is on the impact of violence," he says, "and the way it changes the product. I'm interested in the typology of the remains. "This typology, researched and documented through numerous nighttime forays into the scrap yards of vehicle breakdown services, is a contemporary interpretation of the Vanitas theme. The piles of scrap metal—now functionless and desecrated by crashes—speak of the transitory nature of material power and also a little bit of the loss of the erotic in society. In Brussels he shows his new video installation ,Engines’.