Herman Van Ingelgem explores how his private experience and perception, his relationship and interaction with the immediate surrounding world, is subject to outside influences. How do objects, values and events from the political, social and economic realm sneak into our lives and how do they determine our thinking? How and by whom is value determined, and why? And more importantly, how can we resist this? The research is also a reflection on the artist’s own artistic activity, production and position. Through open images, Herman Van Ingelgem aims to create new senses of eaning, in this way facilitating the adoption of alternative viewpoints regarding the things and objects that surround us.
Thinking of Bruce Nauman's quote 'Blissfull Boredom', Herman Van Ingelgem collected all kind of screws to be found on his studio.