GIJS VAN VAERENBERGH – READING BETWEEN THE LINES
| Designer | Gijs Van Vaerenbergh | |
| Location | Wandelweg tussen Sint-Truidersteenweg en Romeinse Kassei 0, 3840 Borgloon, Belgium | |
| Design Team |
Pieterjan Gijs & Arnout Van Vaerenbergh |
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| Anno | 2011 | |
| Photo credits |
Filip Dujardin (all pictures) |
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Descrizione del progetto
The themes ‘memory’ and ‘collective memory’ form an important motif in the work of Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. Their interventions appeal to historical, utopian or even impossible conditions. Such is the case for Reading between the Lines, which they realized in the open landscape of the Belgian region of Haspengauw. The work is based on the typology of the local parish church that is situated in the centre of many church villages in the region and, as such, belongs to the collective memory. Traditionally, these churches were the spatial and social centres of village life, but that role has now been lost. Reading between the Lines interprets the archetype of the church through a collection of a hundred horizontal cross sections – and thus a hundred ground plans – of the church. The layers of steel read like a drawing in the landscape. They are supported by a field of columns. The result is an image of a church that takes many different shapes. From afar, the image is transparent and fleeting and seems to blend into the landscape. Closing in, the work starts to become more specific, solid and impenetrable, and its details gradually become readable. This range of impressions is comparable to how we experience memories: from very vague and abstract to specific and precise
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