Jasper Coppes
Researcher Fine Art
01.01.10 – 31.12.11 
j.b.coppes@gmail.com
www.jaspercoppes.com

Insertions of Reticence Like patterns in the expanse of a landscape, our memories are more structured than they seem. Recollections of encounters with people or places can accumulate to sketch an itinerary, mapping the imaginary land that stretches out inside us. This land, linked with the everyday places we encounter, breaks away from the everyday and continues to exist in a completely independent domain. If we considered the fragments of memory that constitute this domain in terms of geography, in every life, we would find endless maritime zones, scattered with islands, deserted mainland, cultivated ground, overcrowded cities and unexplored terrain. The delineations of these regions are shaped, not by our capacity to hold on to information or by the words that we use to define them, but by oblivion. The objects and environments that I work with are the result of what emerges through this type of erosion. They are constituted by a resistance to the habitual repetitions of the everyday and all time and space that is calculated, rationalised and reified. When such forms of knowledge decline, it is possible to restore a movement towards the ambiguity of the present. For it is through our capacity to forget the commonplace that we are able to follow the contours of that which is not, or is no longer, or is not yet.

This terrain is also the map of my work as I started unfolding it since I started at the Jan van Eyck academy. The folding lines on the map are still visible and demarcate a conglomerate of fields of research. In my second year at the Jan van Eyck, I mean to implement the marks on this map and insert their mute existence into the reality of the world around me.