videoperformance through 4 seasons, 2005
camera Jim Bollansee
video installation, 4 simultaneous videoloops, duration 4’50” (and non stop),
fragment on view 0’59”
The artist infiltrates four times in nature. Nature flews through her veins
and settles under her skin. The colour on her skin is adjusted to the 4 season
we have in Belgium: winter, spring, summer, autumn.
The tint of blue that the sky has on that specific period of the year-circle,
is condensed on the skin of the artist. Marie Julia Bollansee uses 4 blue
pigments: kobalt in winter, ceruleum in spring, indigo in summer and
ultramarine in autumn.
The Impressionists studied the same setting in different lights or different
seasons. They looked at it with their eyes and painted it. Marie Julia
Bollansee goes into nature, into the same small biotope several times of the
year-circle. And she becomes nature for a while.