Selene, a walk to the far side – Goele De Bruyn

Goele De Bruyn’s work deals with a variety of formal and human concerns through which she often uses elements from the immediate domestic environment. By the juxtaposition of the familiar with the strange, the sometimes absurd and sometimes slightly comical, her works reveal themselves as cultural constructions. Disorientation is the starting point. De Bruyn does not so much attempt to reveal the sometimes idyllic or pathetic character of the objects selected in her work, but rather their potential to become something else.

Selene, a walk to the far side, is an interactive work where the viewer strongly affects the form of the work. In a small pine forest one discovers a surprising appearance from a distance, which slowly changes shape as you walk towards it. One is bewitched by an image that shifts from being apparently immaterial to one of a more material form. It is revealed to be a bronze volume partly inspired by a photograph of the back of the moon, the dark side, the ‘far side’ that we on Earth never get to see.