UPCOMING: exhibition @ ccha Hasselt, from Sunday 16 November 2025 to Sunday 25 Januari 2026
In to me see in to me sea is built up around the juxtaposition of a local night-club and a polar day in Greenland, rendering human rites of passage against the backdrop of more-than-human processes.
Different locations, colors and shapes flow into one another and become translucent layers in an emerging mental landscape. The analogy between the act of seeing and the sea, evoked by the title of the work, is reflected by the instability of the image and the gaze itself: flowing from image to image, hazing and clearing, floating on the surface and plunging into the depths, as if the image is returning to its underwater origin. (Evolutionary theories trace the development of vision in all animals back to a common underwater origin, potentially a jellyfish.)
Book: 32×24cm, 96 pages, paperback / softback, cover: offset print in silver on Sirio dark blue. Text: A boat, a body, a book by Alicja Melzacka on a seperate insert. Graphic design Studio Luc Derycke. Published in 2023 by MER. The art imprint of Borgerhoff & Lamberigts. More about the book here & here .
Different locations, colors and shapes flow into one another and become translucent layers in an emerging mental landscape. The analogy between the act of seeing and the sea, evoked by the title of the work, is reflected by the instability of the image and the gaze itself: flowing from image to image, hazing and clearing, floating on the surface and plunging into the depths, as if the image is returning to its underwater origin. (Evolutionary theories trace the development of vision in all animals back to a common underwater origin, potentially a jellyfish.)
Book: 32×24cm, 96 pages, paperback / softback, cover: offset print in silver on Sirio dark blue. Text: A boat, a body, a book by Alicja Melzacka on a seperate insert. Graphic design Studio Luc Derycke. Published in 2023 by MER. The art imprint of Borgerhoff & Lamberigts. More about the book here & here .