POETICS AND MEANINGS: FRED EERDEKENS AND MOHAMMED KAZEM

Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde presents an exhibition featuring Mohammed Kazem and Fred Eerdekens. In the works on view each artist holds the material and the ephemeral in a tight dialectic to elicit alternative modes of seeing.

Mohammed Kazem creates tangible interpretations of immaterial forces and social experiences that interpret fleeting source material such as the movement of nurses across a courtyard, or the natural phenomenon of wind and sound. The works range in media from colorful cloth pulled tautly over square wooden canvases to a massive assemblage of industrial scales, while a series of drawings probe our perceptions of our urban environment.

Alongside Kazem's works, which track immaterial human-driven and natural systems, Eerdekens crafts the intangible forces of light and shadow to create elegant sculptural works comprising fluid linear forms and playful phrases. The intricate lines of metal sculpture are rendered legible when light is cast on them, to reveal a reflection or shadow of text.