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Ben Coosmans is a screen and graphic artist based in Brussels.

He defines himself as a visual assembler, drawing his sources from all over the place: magazines, urban textures, plant elements, etc., which he collects and reassembles in his artwork.

He extracts these images or textures from their initial context in order to integrate them into his compositions like a visual samplage echoing the punk culture, graffiti and urban music of the ‘90s. The influence of music and urban art are intimately linked through his artistic practice and graphic experiments, resulting in a dynamic attitude of pictorial transgression that attempts to shake up content and form. Benjamin Coosmans seeks to push back the boundaries between abstraction and the figurative to awaken new associations. He assembles, superimposes, juxtaposes, confronts and twists graphic elements to create unusual contrasts and poetic chaos, creating a deconstructed universe with a fragile balance that is constantly evolving.

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Beschrijving

Through this artwork, I wanted to explore the different means of communication that people use to create links.
But this exploration is part of a critique of the excessive use of these tools, which generate interactions that are both real and artificial.

On a daily basis, we are inundated with images and videos that relay the lives, thoughts and moods of others.

We ‘scroll’ endlessly, until we no longer know what we’re looking at, or even lose all awareness of what is real or artificial.

This sense of visual excess manifests itself in a saturated composition of brightly coloured images, extracted from their original context, then rearranged and confronted in a new environment, blurring their initial message.

The artwork also questions the relationship that the viewer can have with it, through a personal interpretation that is sometimes far removed from the one I am proposing.

In what way?

Certain graphic elements, deliberately disconnected from each other, blur the initial message. The aim is to disrupt the reading of the image and open the way to other interpretations, because each image can awaken a different perception depending on who is looking at it.

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