Light Space Modulators

A solo exhibition by HC Gilje (NO)
Conversations with Light, Sound and Architecture
Opening April 29, 18:00-23:00
iMAL, Brussels
HC Gilje spent more than 10 years developing a unique approach to the intersection between visual art, performance art, and live improvisation.
HC Gilje is most certainly a digital artist: his main instrument is the computer and he has developed his own software, as is typical in this digital world when one wants to freely explore and do research. The digital world often implies abstraction and distance from the specificities of the physical world: everything is reduced to being data-processed by the same ubiquitous digital machinery - computers and networks - whether it represents a human or an object, and whether it is here or there, past or present… But HC Gilje's attitude suggests a utopian alternative (Mitchell Whitelaw). His art is deeply rooted in experience in and with the physical world, in the particular and singular act performed in a particular place at a particular time and with particular people. He designs his real-time digital tools to maximise his freedom in a live situation, to feel and experience the specific context and its materiality, and to elaborate audiovisual dialogues using the power of simulation and computer generated illusions that intensify our sense of being in the world.
For his first solo exhibition at iMAL, HC will develop a site-specific work, in continuation of the research he began a few years ago on the relationship between light and space. Here he is playing with the architecture, which actually becomes the actor that will issue a reply to his minimal, abstract, audiovisual compositions. But the conversations become subtle and bi-directional, setting-up a dialectic in which each discourse is modified by the others: light modulates space and space modulates light. As spectators, we are walking inside a total sculpture (an extension of László Moholy-Nagy's Theatre of Totality) and experiencing the multiple inter-modalities, interferences, modulations and resonances between the pure elements of light, sound, shape and concrete structure.