MAX KESTELOOT

Max Kesteloot, 1990 (BE) works in the fields of visual arts.

Max is also teaching at LUCA school of arts, Ghent. Where he’s currently instructing Mixed Media – second bachelor interior design. Max lives and works in Ostend.

...”In terms of content, the viewer experiences a distance to Max’ work: every possible suggestion of a narrative leads us into a blind alley as "his work develops around the paradox of the obvious absence of a subject in the final image. This gives every detail in his work the status or context.” [2]

Max’ work seems to be about how we absorb our environment. About our gaze, our senses constructing its constant presence and influence into an atmosphere that comes with suggestions and anticipations, resulting in fragmented impressions and associative memories. Despite the distant character mentioned above, Max’ approach of this theme actually implies a ‘one on one’, very personal narrative. Because essentially, the work presented to the viewer consists of images documenting solely his environment at a certain place and time, recomposed and literally reframed into final fragments. The artist’s gaze as a substitute for the perceiving individual is immediate, implicit and therefore absent from the final image. Max presents us stories without a narrative, redirecting our focus on the contextual details and inner processes that construct them.”

[2] GAFPA Architecten, www.gafpa.net
Extract from a text by Eline Jacobs - Vanmoerkerke art collection - www.artcollection.be