SOLARIS 20

Dominique Somers

17 March—16 April 2023

Dominique Somers, Dazzle, 2015, neon tube lighting, ca. 200 x 100 cm, unique
violet, Solaris 20 (matte/glossy), 2023, 12 mm MDF wood, paint, 305 x 58 cm
Dominique Somers, Lehua Haole, 2022, ballpoint drawing on page from magazine, 21 x 30 cm, unique
Dominique Somers & Liesbet Grupping, Solaris 20 (footnote), 2023, lamda prints, inkjet prints, 21 x 29,7 cm (A4), edition of 2
Dominique Somers & Liesbet Grupping, Solaris 20 (footnote), 2023, lamda prints, inkjet prints, 21 x 29,7 cm (A4), edition of 2
Dominique Somers, Eclyps, 2021, lucide LED lamp on metal stand, 85 x 25 x 25 cm, unique
Dominique Somers, Dazzle, 2015, neon tube lighting, ca. 200 x 100 cm, unique

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The term ‘graphology’ is perhaps most associated with: ‘the art or science of inferring persons character, disposition and aptitudes from the peculiarities of his handwriting’. As such, graphology is a somewhat outmoded discipline and is rarely called upon to solve a crime or to supply a diagnosis. As a term, however, graphology aptly sums up the notion that in the act of writing and drawing, both the hand and the psyche, the medium and the mind, are implicated, and that perhaps it is impossible to separate one from the other. Edwin Carels, Graphology, Drawing from automatism and automation, Gent: MER, 2012. p 7
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[…] Photography as an analog technology allowed us to consider the camera a vending machine of truth, whose statements were conclusive with respect to technology. In the digital craze the resulting oppositions between document and invention, truth and fiction, authentic and fake are being disarranged as well. In consequence, the ethical burden is shifted from the process itself to the person using it: credibility in a courtroom, for example, is no longer an attribute of photography per se, but at best an attribute of a certain photographer. […] Andreas Müller-Pohle, The photographic Dimension, European Photography, Göttingen, no. 53, 1993. p 6
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fragments from Solaris 20 (Footnote) by Dominique Somers & Liesbet Grupping

Solaris 20 shows the result of the collaboration between Belgian artist Dominique Somers and artist run gallery Violet. It is the first of a series of artistic collaborations where Somers invites different artists to interpret and rewrite works from her archive.
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Solaris 20 is part of Liesbet Grupping’s artistic research, supported by the Flemish government and shown in chapters at Violet.

The exhibition will be open for public on:
Saturday 18 March, from 14—18h
Sunday 19 March, from 14—18h
Friday 24 March, from 14—18h
Saturday 25 March, from 14—18h
Sunday 26 March, from 14—18h
Friday 31 March, from 14—21h (BORGER)
Saturday 1 April, from 14—18h
Sunday 2 April, from 14—18h
Saturday 15 April, from 14—18h
Sunday 16 April, from 14—18h
or by appointment