Room of perception (2013)
TROMPE-L'OEIL PICTURES ON PLEXI
Karin Borghouts uses a trompe l'oeil to simulate the effect of shooting with a 35mm wide-angle lens, often used for architectural and interior photography. Photographs from different series show an empty animal enclosure, a skeletal installation and museum rooms where the objects on display have disappeared from the showcases or are between display moments. On the left, for example, we see packed paintings by Peter Paul Rubens during the renovation of KMSKA. By showing what is not on display, Borghouts analyzes the perception of what should be on display. The tiled floor refers to the Flemish primitives, who did not yet use a central perspective, but already created depth in the depiction of architecture. By doing so, they laid the foundation in our region for a painting that reproduces the perceived depth on the painting surface through a line perspective and turns the painting into a kind of peep-show.