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‘I make work that opens up perception by removing hierarchy. The work remains grounded in reality, but operates without a center of gravity. Authority shifts from the image to the viewer.’

In my artistic practice, I investigate perception as a constructed and regulated process rather than as a neutral or continuous experience. I work with photography, collage, video and installation, approaching images as systems that organise attention, produce legibility, and direct meaning. Our perception guides us toward recognition, coherence, and resolution; through my work, I intervene in these systems in various ways.

I often work with images of transitional spaces, overlooked environments, images with a clearly functional or seductive character, and simple (source) material. I intervene in such a way that the images do not announce meaning and don’t guide the viewer toward a stable focal point. Instead, they create conditions of delay and suspension. Reflection, transparency, layering, and spatial displacements disrupt orientation and prevent a singular, unambiguous reading.

My interventions are deliberately restrictive: they do not generate alternative meanings but limit the conditions under which meaning emerges. Images are not presented as sites of clarity or affirmation, but as unstable fields in which habitual ways of seeing begin to falter. In this way, the work articulates a sustained refusal of dominant visual regimes grounded in efficiency, coherence, and productivity, and instead opts for hesitation, obstruction, and an unresolved presence of tension.

Alida van Gool

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