Medusa Fantasia, making off, performance at the Pocos de Caldas Carnival (Brazil), february 2009. from the Vis Voluntatis project.

From the series ‘The Riveted Kingdom’, 150 x 100 cm Edition of 7 Cymbolic print, 2008

flynn and jan in our garden. just a normal evening. the sun would set in a few more minutes and the snails would come out from their hiding places to eat the salad, in spite of my new protection fence. we would go in and put flynn to bed, clean up the kitchen and read a bit or take a shower. sometimes we would stop and think of one year ago when flynn was born. on just such a normal evening.

The bizarre cityscapes of Bert Danckaert deal with the same paradox of abstractive simplicity and a complexity of meaning and metaphor. Danckaerts still lives breathe a superficial flavour, a strangeness that is found in the familiar. Coincidental installations of sidewalks, walls and street furniture refer more to minimalist art than to conventions of street photography. In these absurd scenarios a recognizable, all too banal reality appears stage-set, props and trompe-l’oeil included, while the actors are absent.