Luuk Smits
photography - installation - sculpture
The abundance of construction material in our area amazes me. As a result, I also come into contact with the design of public space a lot. I observe construction sites, materials left behind by road workers, I walk around. I want to know what something is used for and what the origin of our material environment is. There are different layers within history: social, political and environmental. I am interested in how the materials themselves can communicate these layers, and what role I play in this. I make art to explore, question and share those layers.
A material, for example wood, is a natural material. Because we build with it, the organic form is converted to an industrial form in a specific size. Efficiency and standard play a role in this. I find this moment of transformation from organic material to industrial size interesting. In my work I adopt this principle of transformation, but in a non-standardized way.