(un)bound cuts women out of vintage household, fashion and erotic magazines and sends them elsewhere. The women in these pages modeled clothing, desire and household goods, selling dreams of aspiration. Bound into the magazine and into an expectation, domestic, erotic or demure, each is fixed in place.
Van Gool takes these women out of this fixed context and joins them to an altogether different landscape or scene. What follows is a passage: she has left the role the image assigned her and has not yet arrived anywhere fixed. The works read like odd postcards from a place where different laws of nature apply. They not only seduce but also disrupt their original premise, leaving the viewer to their own imagination.
The project continues by e-mail as (UN)BOUND – postcards from liminal space, with letters and notes from the women’s travels and transformations, written in their voice and sent by Van Gool. Click here to subscribe to (UN)BOUND.
