“This series is about seeing for the first time, before the world has settled into clear objects. Each work is built from many photographs made through small shifts in distance and viewpoint. I move through the subject like a puzzle, from corner to corner. The image forms slowly, not as a single capture, but as an accumulation of partial views.”
Joost Vandebrug
OPENING: FRIDAY, 13 MARCH, 18 - 20.30 H
BILDHALLE AMSTERDAM
THE ARTIST WILL BE PRESENT
Not Yet The Image brings together new works that explore how images emerge through perception, memory, and time. Built from multiple photographs taken through subtle shifts in distance and viewpoint and assembled across cards, plates, and varied materials, the works resist instant recognition and instead form gradually through fragments and partial views.
Inspired by early photographic experimentation and Karl Blossfeldt’s systematic plant studies, Vandebrug adopts a similarly attentive, serial gaze, but turns it toward the unstable, the in-between, and the not-yet-named. Rather than presenting fixed representations, the works stage seeing as an active process: images unfold slowly, inviting the viewer to assemble them piece by piece, as if encountering the world before it settles into certainty.
By presenting fragments that invoke acts of zooming or close looking, the works offer heightened detail while simultaneously requiring the viewer to recontextualize and mentally (re)assemble the whole. We look forward to welcoming you to Bildhalle and to sharing an exhibition where seeing becomes an active, reflective, and deliberately incomplete act.
