Arian Christiaens / Xenia painting they can simultaneously hinder expression

they can simultaneously hinder expression and communication in (exclusively) spoken or written language

Titus Simoens: “I liked the idea of an encounter with a young woman from the past

automatic exposures made on this 00A frame of the negative strip for years

They capture the transient structures of human presence

Arian Christiaens / Xenia painting they can simultaneously hinder expressionXenia is a combination of recent and past portraits that Arian Christiaens made of her sister. Christiaens uses the act of making portraits as an attempt to communicate and understand her sisters personality. Xenia handles the search for identity and how people struggle with fitting in society. Next to this search for identity, Christiaens also addresses the limitations of portraiture and the inability of photography to tell the truth. What is