Though Lieven Segers (Antwerp, BE) started as a photographer, you could hardly define him as such by now. After finishing his master course photography at the Post-St. Joost (Breda, 2001) he landed in projects which went further than photography. One of those experiments, for instance, came to be the short film Seven Days & Seven Nights, in which he captured himself on video, seven days in a row locked up in his studio, drawing without rest, for the first time. The result is a folder with uncountable small drawings, especially figurines, sometimes with a short text. They are fresh, humoristic, some bizarre, other creepy. It is through this humour that Segers expresses his interest in life and art, both as an artist and a curator.
And constantly drawing is what Segers still does: it became an essential element of his installations and his practice in a broader sense. The line works as the viewfinder of a camera: this way Segers zooms, fixing the details which seem to touch him suddenly, occasional, out of nothing. They create a word of drawings on all kinds of material: his studio is filled with large cut outs and small bits of paper. Full of lining, pictures, text. Full of simplicity, full of complexity.
The exhibition opens Friday December the 12 at 19:00 hrs. From December 13 till January 24 open from Thursday to Saturday, 13:00 to 17:00 hrs. Visit the 1646 website.