This is an unpublished project premiered today on C41 Magazine.
Jeroen De Wandel was born in 1980 in Ronse and now lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.
He uses photography as a starting point to create new images that are in line with his themes of interest which are mostly memory and time. He works with different sorts of photographic or not photographic material from his personal image archive. He processes, rips, and re-combines both analog and digital images, but also paintings, developing them into a new definition which goes towards the unexpected. His work is a cross-over between photography, mixed media, and installation.
His work was shown at FoMu in Antwerp and the Rietveld Pavilion in Amersfoort. He was selected for Futures (European program for young artists) and Festival Circulations 2020 (FR).
About ‘Amygdala’ – words by Jeroen De Wandel:
“Amygdala”, which is his most recent project, refers to the place in the brain where emotional memories are created, stored, and processed. Some memories are strongly anchored in our memory, others become colored over time. Fragments from the past lose their context and their connection with the present gradually fades.
This resulted in two magazines with a total different approach.
In Amygdala Alpha, where these images are taken from, he starts with his clear memories, which results in more regular photography, without much modification.
In Bèta, he uses the more blurry memories and ‘in-between’ pictures to construct new images and therefore new memories. By using collages, he expresses the many layers of memories and makes us think about how we deal with facts and manipulation, a theme that is very relevant today.
