Bio Björn Wandels
Björn Wandels (1979, Ghent) employs a wide spectrum of media in a hybrid practice. His work ironically questions the premises of both analog and digital media by decoupling them from their traditional context or function.
He paints photographs from the darkroom, photographs drawings, and gives sound a cinematic form. Through short videos and collage loops, he builds installations that also incorporate poetry and typography.
Wandels does not aspire to scientific objectivity; his oeuvre is rather a personal translation dictated by the logic and boundaries of the artistic material. The result is inherently ambiguous: a body of work that constantly moves between the tragic and the absurd.
