11/07/2026
Will Kerr, ๐๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, 2023
Acrylic on canvas with mixed reality
44 x 34 x 6 cm
Between two windows, a folded canvas in a metal frame. Once activated on their phone, as they step back from the work, the visitors discover that what is hanging on the wall is only part of the piece. On their screen appears not only the full gesture painted on the canvas, but also the landscape represented by the artist โ accompanied by the sounds of nature recorded while he was there.
Visitors can also see one another moving between the image of the landscape and the artistโs gesture, within the same field of vision, looking simultaneously through the landscape and the trace of the artistโs hand.
Will Kerrโs ๐๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ questions how a landscape can be captured or experienced. Rather than representing a landscape directly, the work creates a virtual and performative experience of โbeing there,โ shaped by perception, duration, and attention. It is not only about depicting a place, but also about expressing presence โ what it means to have inhabited a specific moment and site.
Within the context of the exhibition, the work also responds to the idea that what we encounter is never entirely complete. The folded canvas itself is only a fragment of the full piece. By placing the viewer within a mediated and fragmented space, ๐๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ suggests that perception is always partial, shaped by position, memory, and ways of seeing. Rather than resolving this instability, the work keeps the question open โ within both the limits and possibilities of vision.
The artist will be in a conversation with one of our residents, XR specialist Cederik Haverbeke, on 11 June.
The artwork can be seen on the first floor of the exhibition ๐๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ด? Art space is open for visitors from Tuesday to Saturday, 14:00-18:00.
