Jef Bourgeau

Preoccupied with the relationship between vision, things and language while playing on the theme of similarity and difference, Jef Bourgeau's artistic lineage can be traced through a specifically European Symbolist-based conceptual tradition descending from Mallarmé and Jarry through to Duchamp, Magritte and Broodthaers.

The artist's process of accumulating and arranging fragments of images and video is echoed in the viewer's experience of the finished exhibition, where memories of things encountered shape the perception of other things yet to be seen. The blurring of boundaries between past and present is emphasized by Bourgeau's practice of revisiting his own material and re-presenting previously exhibited works in different configurations potentially generating new meaning.