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MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM

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E R K I D E V R I E S<br />

º 1978, V I LVOORDE<br />

A Boomgaardstraat<br />

162, 2 060 Berchem<br />

M +32 (0)479 540 511<br />

E erkidevries@<br />

gmail.com<br />

W erkidevries.net<br />

Erki De Vries seeks to push the limits of our spatial<br />

experience. Via installations and interventions,<br />

rooms and exhibition spaces are taken over,<br />

mapped and mentally expanded. As a result, the<br />

visitor takes a major role, making the installation<br />

a never-ending work-in-progress. An example of<br />

De Vries’ early work, in which he was primarily<br />

occupied with involving the visitor, is Maelstrom<br />

(1999). It is an installation in which the visitor can witness the development<br />

of a vortex in a bath tub the moment he steps into the room. De Vries’ more<br />

recent work experiments with pushing our experience of space. An example<br />

is City Lights (2005), a series for which he collaborated with Tim Vets. It is an<br />

installation in which three computer driven TL-lamps move through space in a<br />

seemingly mathematical choreography.<br />

Architectural Abstraction (2009)<br />

Erki de vries & Anton Boon.<br />

Photo: Pieter Huybrechts<br />

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