Nicole De Brabandere

Familiar objects carry with them very specific functions and the suggestion of movements related to these functions. This series of photographs experiments with activating compositional tensions between figure, gesture, object and pose in relation to familiar functional objects, lending them unexpected and sometimes fantastic functions. Staging familiar use-objects is a way to intervene into the cause and effect of everyday utility, allowing diverse movements and qualities related them to emerge in unexpected ways. As these inhabited associations diversely resonate with familiar forms, they generate new ways to think and feel with how inhabited tendencies or recognition, practice and material form co-compose.

From Left: Comb (2012) and Drip Dry (2012)

From Left: Seat (2012) and Sit Tight (2012)

From Left: Knuckles (2012) and Hand Brake (2012)