Through actions, photography, and video, Frans van Lent investigates the landscape. Does the landscape have its own autonomy, independent from humans? To what extent does that change when humans are present? Does the landscape then become an environment? Or does every landscape reveal humanity, regardless of whether it has been observed, chosen, defined, or captured by a human being? The words "almost" and "barely" lie at the edge of perception. They balance on the boundary between what we can capture and what eludes us.
The work of Frans van Lent (1955) can be described as a concept-driven research process which is guided by personal experience. Little or no material products are created during the work. Sometimes, an audio recording, or video, or some photographs remain, but very often a work ends in just a text, in which the process is described. These texts evoke an image, with which to make the process concrete, palpable and imitable.