The work of Kristof Thomas (born in 1995 in Belgium) is uncompromising. His images are crunchy, his colors are merciless flat areas or printed patterns, the whole is often manipulated to the point of complete deconstruction. The visitor finds himself faced with montages composed of incongruous objects, in abnormally bright, chemically garish colors, most of them digitally smeared and heavily reworked by editing software. All references to reality are chopped up and deconstructed. He creates artificial images, confronting reality with errors, loops, distortions that do not make the system fail but make it more flexible. He experiments, twists his environment and tries all possible devices to turn pop culture on itself. He publishes his works on paper, on cardboard, on frigolite and on all materials that subvert the serious; they are supervised or not; sculptural, on the floor or on the wall; etc. Kristof Thomas plays guessing games with our expectations, without ever falling into the polished aesthetics of good quality graphics. It leaves us on the edge of seduction, until we realize that the reinvention of the image has no limits.

As a preamble to the Apparatus of Joy exhibition at the Satellite Gallery, another part of Kristof Thomas’ project will be presented, from August 25 to September 3, at En Piste! at La Boverie.

Source : Quatremille.be