Kevin Van Aelst
Exhibition through Sunday, August 15
Kevin Van Aelst’s color photographs consist of common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged, assembled and constructed into various forms, patterns and illustrations. The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life—the banalities of daily lives, and the sublime notions of identity and existence. While the depictions of information – such as an EKG, fingerprint, map or anatomical model – are unconventional, the truth and accuracy to the illustrations are just as valid as more traditional depictions. This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas.
