Dujardin’s work is thought-provoking and a visual delight. As an architectural photographer, he takes the physical world of our structures – the framework that creates the spaces of lives – and recreates them on the borderline of implausibility. It’s as if M.C. Escher returned from the dead and started collaborating with Rem Koolhaas on building design.
A few of the striking images by the Belgium artist are posted on Architizer Blog and there is more work on the artist’s own site. But the best place to see a quick overview is at Highlight Gallery where he had his “Fiction” show last summer. As Lorna Gibson noted in FrameMag.com, the images are at once “beautiful, striking and playful.”
Dujardin sees himself in a fascinating place, saying:
Perhaps the works come out of frustration. That I actually want to play at being an architect, instead of only recording the buildings of others.
If Brancusi said that “Architecture is inhabited sculpture,” then Dujardin’s eye and digital imaging skills throws us back out on the street, to stand and wonder at the curious spaces we do inhabit and so often take for granted.
Filip Dujardin
Filip Dujardin, Untitled #1 Ink Jet Print on Archival Pearl Paper, Credit: Filip Dujardin / Highlight Gallery