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![Portrait, 2016-2017
2 channel video installation, 15 min.](https://graduation.schoolofartsgent.be/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/master_vrije_kunsten-Maxime-Gourdon-2-768x589.jpg)
![Sunset (two or three things I remember from Lisbon), 2016
Video installation, 5h loop.](https://graduation.schoolofartsgent.be/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/master_vrije_kunsten-Maxime-Gourdon-768x1152.jpg)
Maxime Gourdon, Lighting Waterfalls
master beeldende kunsten - vrije kunsten
Lighting Waterfalls are backlighted animated paintings of waterfalls that seem to move, but remain still. They could be seen as a metaphor of the video installation projects I have developed for this master’s project. Including notes, diaries and fictional events, I am interested in the exploration of memory and how we distort it. I reactivate classical painting techniques such as anamorphosis, frame, lighting and composition. From stills and feelings we imagine and mesmerize events. A condensation of known elements, recollected in small pieces, distorted and producing a convincing reality that becomes fiction: a narration that comes with feelings and images as vague remembering.
Credits
Many thanks to Juliette Le Monnyer for her help.