BASE-ALPHA GALLERY

LIEVEN SEGERS — NIETS AAN DE HAND, NIETS IN DE MOUW, NIETS TEGEN DE MUUR

19.05.2017 – 01.07.2017

At the end of 2014, Lieven Segers handed out colourfull “Sharing is Caring” cards to people he met in bars. This was an invitation to share their drunken nightly thoughts by texting him troughout the night. More than 300 text messages later, these statements take form as sculpturelike figures. Or more like some type of deviant furniture that feels bizar and awkwardly humorous at the same time. Their white painted bodies and black heads are scattered, almost disorientated, throughout the gallery as a forest of wandering spokespersons of the night.

Lieven Segers deliberately left the walls of the gallery untouched, to avoid a too obvious processing of the “Sharing is Caring” project. By creating these figures himself, with a limited knowledge about woodworking, they radiate an uneasy and clumsy atmosphere, totally in accordance with the received nightly baloney. As a visitor you have to manouvre trough the cluster of woozy contours, while their drunken statements are humming and echoing throughout the gallery space.

The conclusion of “Sharing is Caring” is presented as an edition in the form of an artistbook that compiles the whole of the messages, each one of them combined with a unique gawky figure that honours and indulges the fantastic nightly thoughts. It is an homage to our own mighty and crooked fantasy, with wich we all, from time to time, want to identify. Ariba la luna!