Reinier Vrancken
analytical - artistic research - conceptual - installation - literary
My practice is mainly built on conflicts between, on the one hand, meanings we agree upon, and, on the other hand, meanings we don't agree on, or how one thing can overlap with another. In my works I deliberately give way to transfigurations such as the latter. It is often by subtle gestures such as removing, adjusting and decontextualizing that I underscore the ambiguous and diffuse traits of a subject, many a time resulting in new narratives and meanings that revolve around multiplicity, liminality and fluidity. This is often done through poetic rearrangements of the different forces at work, taking into account art historical, connotational, literary, referential, but also personal contexts.