black/white photography ELKE ANDREAS BOON Elke Andreas Boon

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ELKE ANDREAS BOON

Elke Andreas Boon (Ghent, Belgium) creates photos, drawings, sculptures, and
video work. From these she makes installations, in which she confronts the
various works with one another. The base of Boon’s work is formed by her
innate fascination with people, their emotions and uncertainties. As an artist,
her power lies in locating difficult to define human sensitivities, laying them
bare, and raising them to a level of aesthetic awareness. Her work couples a
poetic and escapist imagination with a raw vision on our human condition.
By assembling her photos, drawings, videos, and sculptures in the same space,
Elke Andreas creates an environment where hyper-individualistic feelings are
sublimated into a sense of ephemeral beauty.

The work thus bears witness to a very personal sensibility. Due to a constant
scanning of the conflict zones that lie between individual and community, the
artist touches a very painful, sensitive spot with many people.
The insights Boon creates through her work are not easily interpreted. Her
work is not the illustration of an idea, but the result of multiple and diverse
impulses that form an ambiguous whole.

For Elke Andreas Boon, artistry is a radical choice for freedom, an attempt to
go beyond the tethering of social structures. Thanks to her imagination and
rebellious attitude towards life, she succeeds in challenging rusted patterns,
generating new insights on what it is to be human.

From : Tanguy Eeckhaut, January 2012

‘Bird’ self-portrait (2012) black/white photography
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‘I’ (1995) video-loop : 3’15”
Thin spindly legs on a white chair bathed in a clinical white light. Then suddenly, a stream of blood appearing from between the legs disturbs this fragile image. Pale hands try to stem the
painful flow of blood. Every now and then we see short flashes of a penis between the legs. This creates confusion in our interpretation of the image. The sound-track is composed of film
dialogues that are in relation to, or are about, blood.

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‘Liza’ (1995) black/white photography
The Children series contains 20 black/white photo’s.

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‘Hendrick‘ (1996) black/white photography ‘Virginie‘ (1997) black/white photography
The Boys series contains 10 black/white photo’s. The Girls series’ 12 black/white photographs

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‘Wash, Nails, Drawings, Tape’, Installation with four video’s running simultaneously.

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‘Baby’ (2000) series of 35 drawings pencil, paint, blood on paper 40 x 70cm

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‘Train’ (2000) series of 7 black/white photographs 2,5/2,6m
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'Off-side', (2001) video-work duo-projection image/sound 11’ loop
Two images. Starting from the trivial recording of a few people playing basketball in the street, the game becomes more aggressive and builds up to a battlefield. There is confusion between
playing a game and fighting a war.

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‘Schelter’ ‘(2001) series of 12 black/white photographs
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‘Poppy’ (2001) Color Photography

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