Art
2018
Philip Vermeulen & Mischa Daams
SLue
In the work SLue, Philip Vermeulen and Mischa Daams study chaotic patterns that arise in the interaction between the 'whooshing' elastic, the frequencies of light, and the effect on the viewer's perception. SLue is the big sister of Vermeulen’s 10 Meter of Sound, where he already explored the sound qualities of the elastic. At SLue, visitors experience a place where things are not quite right. In the marvelous nature of the island, playful abstract forms dart through the trees. Sometimes beautiful and appealing, at other moments frightening and eerie due to the speed of the sound and the wind. A place to linger for a long time. And when you safely close your eyes in your tent, the sound and image can haunt you.
About Philip Vermeulen and Mischa Daams
Mischa Daams and Philip Vermeulen met each other in the banana section of the local supermarket. There was an immediate connection.
Mischa Daams and Philip Vermeulen are both alumni of the KABK in The Hague and are both fascinated by light, stroboscopes, chaotic forces, and the hallucinatory allure of speed and patterns. The question of whether what you see occurs in your own brain or is present outside of it is central to their work. Mischa focuses in his practice on experimentally investigating and engaging with patterns that come to life and sensorially draw the viewer into the work. Philip examines in his work the tension between attraction, danger, and madness. He plays his kinetic instruments at the threshold of what they can hold.
Philip Vermeulen - https://www.philipvermeulen.com/
Mischa Daams - https://mischadaams.nl/
