Ludo Verstraete in his ‘Lab of Consciousness’ is dedicated, through in-depth photography, installations, and multi-media, to explore matter and its variety of human interrelations, especially by studying objects once or still being subject to passion, adoration, praise, or worship, isolate them from their past and present them in a straight forward fashion, stripped from their original context, unattached in a new contemporary reality (Gau, Calcite Chronicles).
Consciously observing, ignoring the subject-object split and the element of time, fundamentally changes the perception of what’s observed, the observer, and, in the rebound, what’s being observed. By staging once sacredly adored items, revisiting and reliving them, they are bound to release back their various intrinsic potentialities to the recognizing viewer.
”What’s seen can’t be unseen”.
Currently, the scope is widened by an exploration of the theme ‘Chlorofyl’, the green in nature formed by the photosynthesis of light, and its contemporary stand-off in the human environment.
Ludo Verstraete, born Belgian, genetically of Nordic descendant (Iceland/Norway/Sweden, y-Dna, male) and Jewish-Iranian (mtDNA, female), presently working and living in Flanders, Belgium.
Ludo Verstraete studied architecture and photography in Ghent, Belgium, and started his photographic works in the early eighties with the exposition ‘Vrij Gedacht in Ijzer’ (‘Free thoughts in Iron’) in the Centre of Arts and Culture, Ghent. A concept of Arch. Johan Baele and MIAT (Museum of Industrial Archeology & Textiles).
Consciously observing, ignoring the subject-object split and the element of time, fundamentally changes the perception of what’s observed, the observer, and, in the rebound, what’s being observed. By staging once sacredly adored items, revisiting and reliving them, they are bound to release back their various intrinsic potentialities to the recognizing viewer.
”What’s seen can’t be unseen”.
Currently, the scope is widened by an exploration of the theme ‘Chlorofyl’, the green in nature formed by the photosynthesis of light, and its contemporary stand-off in the human environment.
Ludo Verstraete, born Belgian, genetically of Nordic descendant (Iceland/Norway/Sweden, y-Dna, male) and Jewish-Iranian (mtDNA, female), presently working and living in Flanders, Belgium.
Ludo Verstraete studied architecture and photography in Ghent, Belgium, and started his photographic works in the early eighties with the exposition ‘Vrij Gedacht in Ijzer’ (‘Free thoughts in Iron’) in the Centre of Arts and Culture, Ghent. A concept of Arch. Johan Baele and MIAT (Museum of Industrial Archeology & Textiles).