Out of Sight invites you to a two-day workshop Light, Language and Botanical Imagination during Antwerp Art Weekend, held as part of the Forest Encounters exhibition – an artistic gathering where the poetics of language meet the luminous matter of the image. The workshop is led by poet and literary theorist Jelena Vukićević and visual artist Ibis Ćerimagić, who works with cyanotypes. Participants are invited into a shared exploration of the boundaries of language, light, shadow, organic rhythm, and plant imagination.
This meeting of two artistic practices gently opens a space for inner landscapes, contemplation, playful creative silence, and imaginative exploration. In a silence that signifies not absence, but presence – we listen to the spaces from which images, words, colors, and light impressions emerge. Cyanotype as a trace of sun and water, poetry as a tender rebellion and a seed before speech – together they offer a space for a unique creative experience.
Learning slowness. Writing with light. Silence as method. Dreaming as an act.
…Through us fly
Birds in silence. Oh, I, who long to grow,
I look outward, and the tree within me grows.
(August 1914, Rainer Maria Rilke)
For all who wish to deepen their artistic processes, discover new forms of expression, and strengthen their imagination in dialogue with nature, the body, and language.
Please RSVP via link before 26 May (limited number of participants: 5 people)
- FREE participation, no previous experience needed
- Language: English
- Vegan lunch is provided
- Wheelchair accessible event
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The Forest Encounters exhibition and parallel programme are part of the Forest Encounters project (2023–2025), co-funded by the European Union, Flanders – State of the Art, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. // Partner organisations: Association Igor Zabel for Culture and Theory (Slovenia), Graz University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Spatial Design (Austria), Out of Sight (Belgium)
