Take 1
Spring 2007
Acrylic on MDF panels (medium-density fibreboard)
Overall dimensions: 110 × 167.2 × 2 cm
Part dimensions: 3 × (110 × 42.4 × 2 cm)
Element dimensions: 9 × (30 × 42.4 × 2 cm)
Fabrication of MDF panels: Hackspill Carpentry & Cabinetmaking, Entzheim, France
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Nine pairs. Nine attempts to approach the other without ever possessing them. Brief Encounters explores the fragility of that suspended moment when two forms brush against one another — recognise, adjust, perhaps align — before parting ways. Here, contact is never prolonged: it resides entirely in a single point — a fleeting edge, an equilibrium on the verge of separation.
Each module, white, smooth, almost neutral, exists as an autonomous entity. Yet, the instant another approaches, tension arises: space tilts, the line bends, emptiness becomes substance. What binds them is not the surface of contact but the breath of the in-between — that narrow interval where the very possibility of connection is born.
The first encounters are timid, almost hesitant. The point advances without piercing; it suggests rather than asserts — two surfaces attuning themselves with care, like two voices seeking harmony. Further along, the geometry grows sharper: angles become bolder, the meeting more direct, almost abrupt. The rigour of the form translates into the candour of the gesture.
Then comes the final movement — one where forms, now conscious of their otherness, invent unexpected unions. Some meet in perfect symmetry; others interpenetrate, creating a new, shared figure in which each relinquishes something of itself to coexist. The last encounter appears unstable, even discordant; yet it is from this imbalance that accord emerges.
Under the white light, all seems calm: surfaces, lines, junctures. But within this restraint unfolds a quiet theatre — one of approach, of measure, of risk. Brief Encounters is less a geometry than a breath: the brief suspension of two forms that, for an instant, accept to meet.
K.L.
Extract 1: first part
Spring 2007
Acrylic on MDF panels (medium-density fibreboard)
Part dimensions: 110 × 42.4 × 2 cm
Element dimensions: 3x (30 x 42.4 x 2 cm)
Fabrication of MDF panels: Hackspill Carpentry & Cabinetmaking, Entzheim, France
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Extract 2: second part
Spring 2007
Acrylic on MDF panels (medium-density fibreboard)
Part dimensions: 110 × 42.4 × 2 cm
Element dimensions: 3x (30 x 42.4 x 2 cm)
Fabrication of MDF panels: Hackspill Carpentry & Cabinetmaking, Entzheim, France
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Extract 3: third part
Spring 2007
Acrylic on MDF panels (medium-density fibreboard)
Part dimensions: 110 × 42.4 × 2 cm
Element dimensions: 3x (30 x 42.4 x 2 cm)
Fabrication of MDF panels: Hackspill Carpentry & Cabinetmaking, Entzheim, France
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Extract 5: first part, element #2
Spring 2007
Acrylic on MDF panels (medium-density fibreboard)
Fabrication of MDF panels: Hackspill Carpentry & Cabinetmaking, Entzheim, France
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Extract 6: first part, element #1
Spring 2007
Acrylic on MDF panels (medium-density fibreboard)
Fabrication of MDF panels: Hackspill Carpentry & Cabinetmaking, Entzheim, France
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Extract 7: third part, element #2
Spring 2007
Acrylic on MDF panels (medium-density fibreboard)
Fabrication of MDF panels: Hackspill Carpentry & Cabinetmaking, Entzheim, France
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France