“Experience is fundamentally partial; meaning emerges through attention and ongoing negotiation, not clarity. My work explores experiences that exceed the personal, without trying to resolve them.”
Alida van Gool works with photography, installation and video, examining perception as a mediated, temporal and recurrent process. Her practice treats images as thresholds rather than representations, employing fragmentation, archival material and indirect presence to decenter individual subjectivity. Through spatial and temporal suspension, the work sustains ambiguity, allowing meaning to emerge through attention rather than resolution.
The practice offers image-based forms that resist resolution and instrumentalization. It engages with sustaining modes of attention and perception that exceed consumption, clarity and narrative closure.
