Arnaud Gerniers

Born 1974, Belgium


Arnaud Gerniers’s work incites sensorial experience. Through the use of drawings and slide projections that consequently translate into photographs, Gerniers is interested in captivating light and more specifically the sensation produced by this natural phenomenon.

 

His main tool is the light beam, with its capacity to create luminous effects, commonly called vibrations. Recreating the magic lantern’s principle in a predetermined space, Gerniers’s projections combine a luminous source with a filter that functions as a slide, and a flat surface that renders the light’s vibrations visible by intercepting the beams. The resulting velvety halos seem to be animated as one sees movements of dilatation and contraction. The concentric and perfectly still circles intrigue our senses while the dynamic effect of the light creates a vertiginous tension. Contrasting the immobility of Gerniers’s light projections and photographs are the autonomous movements operated from our retina. Our eye is under the spell.



Arnaud Gerniers, Untitled, 120 x 150 cm, c-print, 2007.