Up The Ghost · Siebren Versteeg

bitforms presents Up The Ghost, the gallery's third solo exhibition with artist Siebren Versteeg. The show explores image and form, subject and object, life and studio through interdisciplinary works combining sculpture, painting, and photography arranged as digital apparitions that develop continuously throughout the course of the exhibition. The works engage with apprehension and loss, as inspired by developments in the artist's personal life as well as with the recent public engagements regarding digital ephemera and commodification. Rather than conventional artifact display, Versteeg presents an open ontology of past, present, and hypothetical future works of art on a screen-like plane in a light-sealed space. Versteeg prioritizes ultra-high-resolution rendering rather than quickly advancing, evolutionary procedures, with image data generated at a level of detail that surpasses the limitations of display technology as it currently stands.

Works

Siebren Versteeg

New Phone, 2022