Mita Van Eeckhaut
Lineair legacies

graphic design

Mentoren:
Dirk Deblauwe
Peter De Smet

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/mitavaneeckhaut/

In an age in which images and information appear and disappear at lightning speed, my work explores how we continue to give meaning to this constant flow. Central to this is the tension between horizontal and vertical structures in image presentation, structures that are not only formal but also profoundly influence our thinking and viewing. The newspaper functions as a contemporary medium in which these tensions come together. It offers overview and hierarchy, fragmentation and order.

By connecting historical image systems such as the Greek frieze and the tympanum with contemporary information carriers, I develop new narrative strategies in which the implicit plays a crucial role. That which falls outside the frame, lives between the images or eludes direct perception. In my practice, I experiment with rearranging newspaper images, combining linear and layered structures, and breaking through traditional systems.

In this way, the viewer becomes not a passive reader, but an active participant in the process. It is an attempt to break through existing systems, open up new perspectives, and, above all, better understand the complex relationship between form, meaning, and perception in a dynamic world.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

– Marshall McLuhan