Jeroen Nelemans is part of Exposed 2011. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
I am interested in perception and how we are conditioned to experience the moving image, specifically how the digital image can manipulate contemporary notions of sight and seeing. Throughout history, the words “nature” and “landscape” have traveled a semantic journey of meaning. My work continues this discourse as it relates to the ever-expanding possibilities of digital technology.
Both the Loop and 5min and 6sec present an image of a moving landscape that is broken into a triptych. Image and time are derailed and re-synched to create a new landscape. In Search of the Miraculous introduces a quiet seascape that gets interrupted with splashes of the translucent layer from Photoshop. The title suggests something wondrous, referring to the renowned artwork of BasJan Ader that shares the title. Yet nothing happens, because in computing terms, the translucent layer represents: nothing.
In How to Disappear Completely a taped-off light bulb is reflected in an east-facing window, thus alluding to a naturally occurring sunset. During the period of the video, the reflection takes on the characteristic movement of a “real” sunset as it slowly descends below the horizon. Whereas the digital process is subtle and quiet, the resulting effect is not. How to Disappear Completely draws attention to personal space, global issues and challenges our perception of vision, time and space.
Nelemans received his Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Since then he has shown extensively: most recently at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2011), the DelaCruz Collection Contemporary Space in Miami (2011), the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (2011), the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece (2010), Ebersmoore gallery in Chicago (2010), the Nice&Fit gallery in Berlin (2009) and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids (2009). Current screenings include: the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada (2010), Gallery 400, Chicago, and the Werkleitz Centre for Media Art, Halle, Germany (2011).
ABOUT EXPOSED
For the past twenty years, the Helen Day Art Center has hosted an outdoor public art and sculpture exhibition called Exposed in Stowe, Vermont. Exposed hosts sculptures, site-specific installations, and participatory work from twenty-three national and international artists. the 2011 edition offers a series of Thursday night events by 12 video artists, writers, performers, and musicians accompany the exhibit. This exhibition and series of events is accompanied by cell phone audio tours, QR codes, walking tour maps, walkabouts, and a catalogue of the exhibit published by Kasini House Books. The exhibition will take place July 8th to October 8th, 2011.