Jochem van der Spek (1973, NL) lives and works in Amsterdam.
His work considers the balance between living and non-living movement. For Palais Paradiso, Jochem van der Spek will exhibit one of his self-made drawing machines.

'Painting is the celebration of the trinity formed by thinking, moving and seeing. But these three things are determined by our expectations and limited by our physique. So, if we want to move beyond that, what does a non-human movement look like? Can it hold emotion, will we not see the humanity of a movement all the more in its absence? The drawing machines and machine drawings explore this balance. In the midst of all possible mechanical, predictable, repeatable, constant and non-human movements, a few sometimes show character, a poetry that only they can find.'

www.dynamica.org

Jochem van der Spek (1973, NL) lives and works in Amsterdam.
His work considers the balance between living and non-living movement. For Palais Paradiso, Jochem van der Spek will exhibit one of his self-made drawing machines.

'Painting is the celebration of the trinity formed by thinking, moving and seeing. But these three things are determined by our expectations and limited by our physique. So, if we want to move beyond that, what does a non-human movement look like? Can it hold emotion, will we not see the humanity of a movement all the more in its absence? The drawing machines and machine drawings explore this balance. In the midst of all possible mechanical, predictable, repeatable, constant and non-human movements, a few sometimes show character, a poetry that only they can find.'

www.dynamica.org