The works of Mohammed Kazem and Fred Eerdekns hold the material and the ephemeral in a tight dialectic to elicit alternative modes of seeing and understanding space, experience and environment.

Eerdekens codifies the ephemeral through a series of new copper wire works playfully spelling out phrases in shadow and space as well as on water in one work. Kazem creates tangible interpretations of immaterial forces and social experiences that interpret fleeting source material such as the movement of nurses over a courtyard, or the natural phenomenon of wind and sound. The works range in media from colorful cloth pulled tautly over square wooden canvases to a massive assemblage of industrial scales, while a series of scratch paintings probe the boundaries between stillness and fixity, motion and potentiality.

Image: © Fred Eerdekens, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde