Conversation : Willem Oorebeek & Camiel van Winkel (EN)
As part of the OBSTAKLES exhibition programme, WIELS presents a conversation between artist Willem Oorebeek and critic and theorist Camiel van Winkel. Van Winkel has followed Oorebeek's work for many years and written several essays on his artistic practice. He has particularly focused on Oorebeek's approach to appropriation and the distinctive role of his emblematic BLACKOUT series.
The discussion will explore central themes of the artist's work: his questioning of image visibility, the materiality of print, and his critical exploration of the reproduction and erasure processes that define his practice.
Hulya Yilmaz
BIO I Camiel van Winkel writes on contemporary art and cinema. Trained as an art historian, he is a senior lecturer and researcher at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels. He is the author of various books: Moderne leegte. Over kunst en openbaarheid (1999), The Regime of Visibility (2005), The Myth of Artisthood (2007/2013), and During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed: Contemporary Art and the Paradoxes of Conceptualism (Valiz, 2012). In close collaboration wit artist Joke Robaard he published Archive Species (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2018), the result of an indepth inquiry into the representation of the clothed body in print media since the 1970s. His latest book is a collection of essays on film, entitled Lichaam en steen. Over film (Antwerp: Letterwerk, 2023).