The title of this exhibition, ‘Still the Time’, refers to the concept of time, which can be stopped and also calls for silence. Going against the current of acceleration and haste, Eun Young and Carel wish to pause and reflect on wonder.
Lee Eun Young is a crossover artist. In that respect, her personal multicultural background and artistic identity reflect this as well. Raised in Korea, educated in Paris, and now working in the Netherlands and abroad for quite some time, Eun Young produces original and non-conformist, unfashionable, lively, and humorous works with a serious undertone. Sometimes she takes a position as an autonomous artist, and at other times she operates as an applied artist, fashion designer, poet, and even performer. Creating and recreating, based on a permanent search for identity, connections between then and now, here and there. For her work in this exhibition, she continued working steadily on ‘The imaginary landscape’; this large work features books that have been cut into three-dimensional compositions in an almost surgical manner. Additionally, she displays objects from recent years related to religion.
Carel Lanters is originally a sculptor with an affinity with art in public spaces; art that can be experienced by everyone. Alongside these activities, he has continued to develop his skills in the medium of pinhole photography; for several years now, he has been working with movement. During exposure times of approximately 20 seconds or more, he walks around a tree, for example, resulting in abstraction and references to the paintings of William Turner and Leon Spilliaert, among others. The time factor is essential in this process. Recently, he has been experimenting with painting these prints using watercolor paint. For this exhibition, a selection was made from the dozens of pigment prints on special paper, a number of which have been painted.
In addition to their individual work, more and more collaborative projects have emerged between Eun Young and Carel in recent years, such as ‘Ex Voto’ at the Watou Art and Poetry Festival in 2024 (wax casts of body parts), ’Arbores Cantare’ for Woest en Bijster in 2025 (wax casts of knots), and duo exhibitions at Arttra Amsterdam in 2017-22-25. In these works, content and expressive power are carefully orchestrated in various mutual arrangements.