Krystel Geerts - La Chimera II, 2023, ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’ — Exhibtion Saatchi Gallery London, curated by Louise te Poele. Photo: Pasquale Viglione.
The works of Krystel Geerts are united by the intangible nature of their surfaces and materiality. They appear fragile and open, like blurred memories of baroque architecture. Not least because the process of their creation is inscribed in the works.
Her works are inspired by architectural images that she finds on the Internet. The designs for her works ultimately emerge from memory, with the images from very different places overlapping and merging, creating the impression of a sensory illusion of incomprehensibility. In this way, Geerts comments on various illusionary techniques in the history of art and architecture, above all the Baroque period, and relates them to the present. After all, appearance and reality are increasingly diverging in the digital world: fake or manipulated images, videos and news are circulating on an almost equal footing with real information. What remains tangible in Geerts' work is the vague perception of a fragmented world.
