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Text fragment taken from: ‘The
mutated body’ in a Montevideo/TBA
publication,1998 ……The
metamorphosis of the world Bogers' installations can also be
regarded as attempts to make the fundamental chasm between the inner and the
outside world, between subject and object, between image/representation and
reality, visible and tangible. Bogers emphatically shows the confinement of
the images within the order governing the representation, a strange,
introverted order, which does not belong to ordinary reality. Everything
looks so miss-happen and strange that you are forced into reflection on the
status of both worlds, the ordinary world and the one represented. It is as
if the manifestations in Bogers' work were in a different dimension, with a
different gravity and different laws of space and time. Considered from the
sphere of the normal and conventional, it is governed by total disintegration
and fragmentation, and you are the observer of alienating, introverted,
rituals. There are barely answers to the whys and wherefores, on the
contrary, questions are raised. There are no coordinating, narrative,
contexts: the images mainly relate to themselves and to each other. In Heaven
(1995), the
focal point is not specifically the body, but rather, perception and the
experience of time: a great many video monitors, showing fragmentary images
and sounds from life about the house, are spread over various rooms. The
images only last a second and are repeated endlessly, one second forward, one
second back. The whole set-up evokes an unearthly, constantly tense and
alarming atmosphere. Heaven
shows an
out-of-the-ordinary world, which seems to have come about beyond our
perception. As if something fatal had happened and reality had undergone a
metamorphosis……. |