My work engages with ideas of site specificity, time, technology, interactivity and perception. These themes are manifested in work that is generated from specific concepts, processes or places across disciplines of media, light, video, installation, sculpture, photography etc. Over the last 10 years I have developed a keen interest in the potential of site specific, socially engaged and collaborative practice. Projects have included developing public art workshops and discussions, working with urban planners, landscape/architects, lighting designers and engineers as well as exhibition and publication ventures.
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The main aim my artwork is to evoke in people their personal experiences of space by interacting with movement of light, usually in the sculptural form, projections and sounds, and the definitions of specific space itself. These new environments tend to become visually and emotionally engaging in an unexpected way. The underlying intention is to explore the oldest of relationships, that which exists between people and the wholesome world of nature within given specific place or public realm.
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This quote from Tadao Ando's exhibition at Royal Art Academy in London perfectly voices my own understanding of space: “I remember the mood of places better than their precise features because places are for me life situations rather than geographical sites.”
Rene Dubois |
I experience life through endless movement and change, where a myriad of individual elements form one wholesome limitless unity. It is this basic principle of nature, which prompts me to use specific environments as part of the creative process. Media like glass, light (in a form of moving video image) or sound are chosen for their innate properties like transparency, reflectiveness, flow in time and the ability to describe the ephemeral qualities of place by calling on inner reflective and emotional responses.
I believe convincingly that experiencing art through the use of all our senses and becoming part of the environment itself, is what induces the most profound understanding of the world and ourselves as part of it. |
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“Our life is half natural half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. … Yet if you make it only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.”
Nam June Paik
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