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Gabriel Lester

A collection that reads like a poem

Gabriel Lester (1972) was born in Amsterdam, where he had found his way as an inventor, visual artist and film director early on. Lester's creativity knows no boundaries and includes music, film, spatial installations, performance art, sculpture, architecture, photography and prose. On top of all this, he is a gifted storyteller. He just loves the power of words. He himself says about his work: "In my visual art and films I often dissect images, language and form. In art I am looking for the boundaries of an image in relation to the story and vice versa, whereas in films I look for the boundaries of a story in relation to the image. I am not looking for unambiguous solutions, but I am fascinated by the conditions and desires that influence our perception. I want to offer the spectator mental exercises. I do this by presenting work that is elastic in terms of image, language, meaning and interpretation."

Gabriel selected eight text-based artworks for his collection. And Gabriel wouldn't be Gabriel if he wouldn't use the texts in the artworks, hence his collection contains a poem:

Let’s play pretend
Go home
Erase Awareness
This is the fall out
Drawing blues
Mirage
Die slow

Sarah Maple

4 Éléments multimédias ᛫ 79 Oeuvres disponibles

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Somehow this is an ominous image to me. The longer I look at it the more intrigued I am. I am the kind of viewer who wonders whether Home was already on the back of the globe when Go was being photographed, or vice versa. I want to see the invisible. What appeals to me is the simplicity in this image and at the same time the versatility of the meaning “go home”. Does it read Go and Home as separate words or does it refer to one’s home?

Rory Pilgrim

8 Éléments multimédias ᛫ 28 Oeuvres disponibles

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This work is explained in detail on the website. Apart from the context in which it is shown, the image itself evokes other associations in me. In my mind, this work is like sound, a slowly dying sound. But I also associate it with a stamp, the ink of which fades. For me, the work is about form, sculptural and acoustic. It has body language, an attitude. And it is a kind of air mirror that floats above a spot, a spot on the horizon that we cannot yet perceive.

Mariëlle Videler

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This work is a word. This word can mean alertness, but also consciousness. It is wrapped, almost concealed, in camouflage, in patterns. The word is interwoven with the surface. Alert and aware, but actually hidden and sunken. It’s there dancing in front of your eyes, yet elusive. An animal that spies its prey through the leaves in the rainforest ... alertness and consciousness at the same time.

Berend Strik

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This is a work in which text in the drawing tells everything and nothing at the same time. The artist longs for drawing, perhaps longs for his youth, for lost spontaneity. Two slippers float between what appears to be a self-portrait of the artist as a young man and the text at the top of the artwork. It's a few worn-out old slippers - the blues. The desire to draw. In German, there is a word like Fernweh, which means as much as the desire to be far away. Far away, back to the old days when you could still draw unrestrained. Without too many concepts… or style. The "far away blues" on your slippers.

Midas Zwaan

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