Gert Robijns’ works confront the audience with a form of “super-reality”, a parallel universe in competition with our own reality. This parallel world seems to appear after a kind of minimal “shift”, and Robijns induces the deviation from the norm by placing particular emphasis on images, sounds or objects as individual units. Reality is not reproduced, therefore, but reconfigured. The artist uses a minimum of signals and effects: familiar, everyday sounds, changes in temperature, a breath of wind or a flickering light bulb. The outcome is a balance of differing forces whose fragility and temporal restrictions can be recognised from the outset.
