Eva-Maria Bogaert

For some time now, Eva-Maria Bogaert has made it her task to replace what she sees as a lost component of fine art: sound. She combines film techniques and painting not only with music, but above all with an investigation of those sounds that can become apparent during the perception of colours: tonal impressions gained from colours, the “coloured hearing” that may be translated using the specialist term “auditio colorata”. This concept describes the synaesthetic phenomenon meaning that for some people certain colours produce sounds and various tones radiate colour. For her piece “2Bis”, the artist has assembled a form of text collage using words from different languages – Flemish, Italian, German, English – and then transposed these into music, in order to translate this music, in turn, into colours. The piece that emerged in this way is to be presented in an installation performance in Studio 240. In Studio 3, the artist will also be showing a new interpretation – entitled “Blitz” – of various previous works, including a musical instrument she constructed that enables her to “play” words.