Guy Vording
By searching, sliding, cutting, cutting and merging I give misfortune its own shape. The spectator must have the feeling that they've entered just too early or too late.
In the ongoing series 'Black Pages', Guy Vording (the Netherlands, 1985) investigates his collection of forgotten news articles from the American magazine LIFE and draws out existing elements or adds them to the newspaper pages. It is primarily the struggle between the great catastrophic and the small intimate disasters that draw his attention: tipping points in life that ensure an end and a beginning where control seems to be lost. The same applies to Vording's technique. Drawing with watercolor pencil on the obsolete newspaper paper requires precision with the constant risk that the vulnerable paper will tear. With subtle graceful lines, Vording conceals what he does not want to see and intuitively but resolutely directs to a new personal performance.
