Thomas Bakker projects photographs, slides, and 16mm film fragments onto sculptures and found objects.
Thomas Bakker projects photographs, slides, and 16mm film fragments onto sculptures and found objects. He is often guided by influences from cinema and architecture, combining absolute and ephemeral materials such as concrete and celluloid.
Thomas Bakker explores the way in which ideas can be represented through form. His working method is often site-specific, viewing exhibitions as a catalyst for producing a reservoir of possible meanings and discursive experiences. His poetic work derives its refined aesthetics from a wide range of influences, including film, sculpture, and literature. Visual or textual sources and ideas are repeated or (re)used in different forms, based on the desire to bring those ideas back to life.
"My temporary installations are constructed from photographs, slides, projected film and video fragments, which I select in my studio and combine with objects. I film sketchy, spontaneous-looking actions or acts, which I then slow down in time and, as it were, sink. By combining the cinematic experience with objects, sculptures, and architecture, spatial fragments are created in the form of site-specific installations. I make use of their individual characteristics and experiment within the installation by placing them together and connecting them. This creates a kind of container of time."