I was invited by the curator Erwin van Den Arend to exhibit at the ART SANT ROCH Gallery in Céret in April 2025.
Knowing that Erwin wanted an installation, I decided to show an old piece called ‘Ghostwalkers’.
Text I wrote for the promotion of the show.
“Details are the building blocks of memory and therefore by default, at the heart of all stories. Today, we have become numb to the details presented to us in current affairs 24/7. Our anaesthetised selves now seem to resist the cataloguing of ‘details’ as we recoil from this relentless bombardment of information. This suggests that our long term memories could become so undernourished of ‘detail’ that our memories will become obsolete, leaving us solely in the present and void of stories.

The details shown in the images posted here, are close ups of porcelains I made in 2016, called ‘Ghostwalkers’.
They refer to 5000 Syrian refugees who were filmed during the night, in November 2015, by Slovenian border police
using thermal imaging cameras, as the refugees crossed from Croatia into Slovenia. The thermal cameras themselves
pick up no details of individuals, such as facial features etc., but it is clear there are people depicted and thanks to
accompanying information, we begin to understand their story. I want these interpretations, which lack so much detail,
to intrigue and draw attention to the ‘details’ which make up this devastating story, so that we stop forgetting during this
era when we most need to remember the details.”

Images:
01 – Ghostwalkers installation and three paintings in the Art Sant Roch space in Céret
02 – Ghostwalkers installation and three paintings in the Art Sant Roch space in Céret
03 – Ghostwalkers installation and three paintings in the Art Sant Roch space in Céret
04 – Close up of Ghostwalkers
05 – Tide Will Tell I (2022) 220cm x 153cm acrylics, inks, graphite, porcelain slip on plywood panel
06 – Footage Has Emerged I (2013-25) – 190cm x 129cm & Footage Has Emerged II (2014-25) 175cm x 120cm
07 – Footage Has Emerged I (2013-25) – 190cm x 129cm
08 – Footage Has Emerged II (2014-25) – 175cm x 120cm
09 – Me with some visitors at Ghostwalkers