Tweelinckx, through small interventions, creates surreal situations and short circuits. He makes pillars float, bends steel beams and ties a knot in a tube. Something between John Massis and David Copperfield. The artist does not work with marble or bronze, but with sockets, walls, electrical cables, pipes, trestles and baseboards. His attention shifts from the painting on the wall to the actual wall. Like the plumber or electrician of conceptual art.
Tweelinckx plays with our optical observation and perception. ‘Read it, it is not what it says,’ wrote the Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff. Roeland Tweelinckx turns this into: ‘Look, it is not what it is.’ The artist encourages us to better observe the surrounding reality. Through his minimal interventions, he sharpens our perception, finely adjusts it. He transforms the everyday reality we are so familiar with to the point where we no longer pay any attention to it. Those slight, homely disruptions often provokemoments of doubt: Where is the work? Was this like that? We are often seeing blind. The artist asks nothing better than that visitors engage in dialogue about his interventions. And that the work, in this way, lives on in those conversation.
Quotes from a text by Sam Steverlynck