Lieve Prins
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Belgian-born (1948) LIEVE PRINS
completed the Academy of Fine Arts in Breda (Holland)
and took courses on audio and visual communication at
the Film Academie of Amsterdam.
She is internationally considered as a pioneer in copy art,
discovering the unexpected possibilities of copiers some
twelve years ago. |
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Lieve Prins
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Fascinated by the technical performances of a laser copier, described by her as a magic box, a colour camera, an instant photo studio, a scanner and printer and a horizontal mini theatre, LIEVE PRINS is manipulating the copier to see her dreams and thoughts come true on new images and a new image-language.
Fishes, water, ice, her two daughters, friends and much and many more appear on her copier. Just like a painter, LIEVE PRINS, by using A3 and A4-copies as brickstones,
will build up her phantasy ideas.
LIEVE PRINS and her copier appear on stage too. She uses a video table to show the images of acting and moving men and women, whom she will first place horizontally on the copier glass. result : what’s static on the copier turns out to be mobile on the video table.
Her models, lying down on the high-temperatured copier with often an extra 600 wats- lights on their faces and bodies, really are to be tortured.
LIEVE PRINS considers this ‘torture’ as apart of the creative proces,
to be transmitted to, and - at the very same time - to contradict with the shiny, beautiful outcome of the art work.
LIEVE PRINS developped a specific image-language concerning love, intimacy, vulnerability, erotics, sensuality and communication.
Her fascination with ancient art serves as an important source of inspiration.
Visions, images, metaphores, and symbols of the past seem to be travelling through
time, to play their role in today’s context.
Saya LIEVE PRINS : “ I sometimes feel like an archeologist researching times to come. The copier will then serve as a time machine, as an intermediary between the past, the present and the future.”
you can find the Curiculum Vitae HERE.
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