bedspread works with spreads from vintage erotic magazines: images made to deliver a body that is sharp and fully available. Van Gool submits these to a flatbed scanner, moving the printed page during the scan so that distortion is produced through the act of copying rather than applied to the image afterward. The specific sites through which the image addresses its viewer — the direct gaze, the explicit act — dissolve, while the body remains recognizable enough to hold attention. What survives is often the hands: still performing a gesture toward something that is no longer there. The research is currently extending into fabric, through printing on textile and projection onto hanging cloth.
