Hilde de Decker: On the Move

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Hilde De Decker

You enter a gallery to see an exhibition but at first glimpse there’s nothing to see.
You keep on walking through the room with the feeling that everything is gone and no one is any longer there.
The gallery sounds hollow, though the rooms are not empty.

Hilde De Decker reduces the material in order to discover one another. She uses the void as the visual means to show just what has been omitted.
Omission is not the same as reducing the contents, but on the contrary, it can intensify and show more.
The exhibition On the move is an open experience where the viewer can open up their own records of mental images, and rely on what she or he sees.
There are objects even if they have taken unexpected forms and gives the concept of material a more subtle reality.
This requires more of the visitor but eliminates forced beliefs and preconceptions.

Filled with sulek-burcu-emptiness-2015, this exhibition wavers on the edge of the tangible and absent picture.