TUER LE TEMPS (KILLING TIME)

Patrick Everaert creates pho­to­graph­ic prints from magazine images which are then reworked on a computer. Although his work seems to concretise visual impos­si­bil­i­ties that René Magritte would have approved of, surrealism is not the only reference present in the work of Patrick Everaert. Literature and par­tic­u­lar­ly authors who destroyed the rules of narrative con­struc­tion, cinema, art history, photography and also semiology and psy­cho­analy­sis are all equally important prisms for under­stand­ing his work.

Time is also an essential concept in his work, as much in the creation process as their future appre­ci­a­tion. The title of the exhibition, Killing Time, reinforces this demand for slow observation, an almost unconscious desire to delay the moment when the image is revealed to its full extent. During this exhibition, Patrick Everaert presented previous and new work in which he had placed many visual ​‘traps’, constantly disrupting the rules of recognition to delay any under­stand­ing of the pieces.

Exhibition Curator: Pierre-Olivier Rollin