THIS IS LIGHT

NEIGHBOR (019), Dok-Noord 5L, 9000 Ghent
01/02/2025 – 09/05/2025

NEIGHBOR is a light structure on the eastern facade of 019, consisting of 8 digits, like those used to display time on a digital clock. It is visible from the quay across the Handelsdok, where new apartment buildings, schools and parks appear. 019 invites artists and writers to create work for NEIGHBOR.

THIS IS LIGHT pays homage to Michael Snow’s ‘text film’ SO IS THIS (1982). Just like SO IS THIS, THIS IS LIGHT both plays with the self-referentiality of language and refers to works by other artists. Eyes and brains read and watch letters form words form language. (Veva Leye)

Inauguration in the presence of the artist: 1 February 2025 at 17:00h.
Schipperskaai / concrete slab betoncentrale.

Partners:
Kasper Jordaens / Kaotec
Vivalyte Smart Led Solutions

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AUX PAIRS

Edition published by INFINITIF

Two words (in various languages) resonate, intertwine, partly overlap, cause confusion.

Author(s): Veva Leye
Title: AUX PAIRS
Publication year: 2023
Edition: 50
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 12 × 8 cm
Print: Digital print
Production: Jelle Martens
Specifications: card box / linen

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of, ook, but not quite

Exhibition with Jelle Martens
Convent Art Space, Ghent
14.04 – 21.05 2023

Repetition, duplication, unfolding, mirroring, de-duplication, inversion, but not quite. Infinite indeterminate modified reconsidered resonating. Translate, distort, lose, repeat.

The endless possibilities of image and text reproductions, operations and replications define the work of visual artist Jelle Martens and writer Veva Leye. Operating in the connecting area between original, idea, play, process, copy, multiplicity and archive, the visual practices of both artists interact within the space and context of Convent.

Jelle Martens' work focuses on the ambiguity of meanings that both secure and sever the connection between perceptions, actions and affects. Through installations, drawings and publications, Martens manipulates specific contexts that so often regulate our looking-at and thinking-about.

Caught up in language, Veva Leye’s work playfully and critically draws attention to the fragile, labyrinthic and arbitrary aspects of language. In the context of this exhibition, Veva explores various ways and forms in which her work can function outside the traditional pages-of-a-book.

With the support of the city of Ghent, Culture Ghent, and Duvel Moortgat.

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HAP AX LE GO ME NONPublication published by Het Balanseer

HAP AX LE GO ME NON presents a series of poems/pieces that playfully explore the materiality of language on different levels by means of montage, association and grafting and in so doing point to the ways in which language/signifiers and people/subjects generate meaning.

Design: Danny Dobbelaere
Dimensions: 20×14 cm
Pages: 80
ISBN: 978 90 792 025 39
Price: €19.50

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Publication by Natasja Mabesoone with poems by Veva Leye and Harryette Mullen, published by Posture Editions

‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is a series of layered soft ground etchings, drawings and monotypes by Natasja Mabesoone. The title is a nod towards a Fitzgerald story about Bernice, who changes her approach to traditional gender roles and youth over a visit to her niece Marjorie. Starting from the biased idea and normative use of marginalised graphic procedures as a means of reproduction, the idea of repetition is explored so that iterations become alterations or modifications of the same. Fluid figures, painterly gestures and cartoonish scrawls and patterns are subject to a reflection on cuteness, power (-lessness), sexuality and domesticity.

Starting from and in close dialogue with Natasja’s series reproduced in this book, Veva Leye wrote a series of poems/pieces resonating with this body of work, further exploring its themes and methods through merry operations on the signifier.

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