Jacques Vandamme

It is through assemblies that I undertake my graphic journeys.

There is no precise destination. These assemblies elaborated from observed objects or created in a random way, take shape by accumulation, adjustment, superposition.

Thus combined, these forms exchange their presence between them and act of an impossible totalization. If there is a background, it is that proposed by the support. A screen whose access to the back matters as much as the one reserved to the front.

From then on the original subjectile is the layer. The drawings affixed to it are collected by a photographic medium and metamorphose according to the erasures, the impastos.

The indexical character of the photography acts on the perception, guides it or perverts it. It is not the place of finds or contortions of the technique, but rather of points of memory, of an immediate presence in the world.

Within the tracing, multiple projections are combined and the foundations of different digital impressions are deposited. Sometimes on paper to exploit its skin quality, its luminous white, sometimes on translucent canvas to benefit from its flexibility and transparency, or on various panels to deposit the pigments on supports, this time, opaque and resistant.