Invited artist:Paul Segers
When I was asked to make a record about moments of wonder in my life, I thought of the worn ‘the best of Leonard Cohen’ record I had saved without owning a working record player. Somewhere in late 2000, I was standing in the desert of Australia in front of a small cave.
It was early in the morning before the heat would take charge. I played this record on my disc-man and watched the sun come up over the rocks. 24 years later, I was filming a video-work in the Arctic desert of Svalbard, close to the North Pole. I was laying on the ground in the strange Martian-like landscape we were visiting for the day, and thought about this other moment in time, seemingly centuries ago.
The camera was panning by, as I realized that these moments were connected to each other through time and space. I had even called my new video triptych ‘The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away’, a line I had shamelessly borrowed from Cohen’s song ‘Democracy’ on the ‘The Future’ record. So I worked with the actual record to create this record of ‘2 Moments of wonder in time and space’ which became the title for the work. There is a small grey spot, below the video still I worked into the record, made from actual sand from that location.
Paul Segers Bio StatementUDC-Productions (Unlimited Dream Company) is the studio of visual artist Paul Segers.
UDC works with film, video-installation, sculpture, public installation, performance and drawing. Paul Segers graduated at the sculpture department of the Academy of Fine Art & Design in ‘s- Hertogenbosch in 2000, and earned his MFA at the Dutch Art Institute in 2005.
UDC is concerned with the human condition in a highly technological age, our relation to each other, to technology and to our environments. UDC uses visual metaphors in various media to create a different perspective on these intertwining relations. We believe in the power of the image to shape our thoughts and actions.
UDC-publishing is an independent publishing house for books on art and design run by Segers and graphic design studio ATTAK - Casper Herselman. UDC publishes books on artists and makers who’s work and mentality inspire us. Besides running UDC-Productions & UDC-Publishing, Segers is teaching at the Art & Research department of St. Joost School of Art & Design in 's-Hertogenbosch and Breda. Segers writes texts for publications and occasionally organizes and curates exhibitions or projects.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in, among others, the Van Abbe Museum (NL), Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL), Gemeentemuseum Helmond (NL), ArtZuid Amsterdam (NL), The GAFA Art Museum Guangzhou (CN), The National Museum Budapest (HU), Vasarely Museum Budapest (HU), The Art Gallery of Alberta (CAN), Les Berges de Seine - Paris (FR) and the Universities of Nanjing and Xiamen (CN).
