Kunstenaar

Emma Van Roey

Emma Van Roey

2580 Putte

The in-situ installation of Emma van Roey is made of sand and wire. Her images affect and strike us. Emma makes images that slip and get away while we observe them and that confront us with our own ‘condition humaine’.  As well monumentally with a fist raised in the open space, as tiny and poetically clamped to a wall.
The images consist of wooden boards, thin wire and sand, trying to keep each other together. They exist in the moment.
Emma’s images are attempts to wrap and hold what one cannot wrap and hold. Time intervenes yet during the making, but Emma goes on until that one intended image exists for a moment. Then she leaves it to time and decay. The lost image lays on the ground as loose sand, calling the viewer and raising questions.
For one so young, it’s rare to see images able to go that deep. And the maker must have gone deep in herself to achieve this.
Emma makes vulnerability and our own mortality visible, an emotional experience.
Emma Van Roey creates spatial installations that force us to reflect on our time in life. She tries to represent vulnerability by applying tactile acts.

Written by Carina Diepens – free translation

Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey
Emma Van Roey