Author Archives: Frans van Lent
Sleeps
I invited friends
to make a ten minute long audio recording
of someone close sleeping.
In editing I superimposed the recordings
as layers into one combined file,
a document of collective intimacy. Continue reading
Binoculars
On a walk in the forest, I stopped at an intersection.
I turned around and, looking through my binoculars,
I imagined myself walking on the path behind me a moment earlier.
Then I turned back again and, looking at the path in front of me,
I imagined myself walking there a moment later. Continue reading
The Virtual Reality
I sit in front of a map and a notebook.
I look at the map and in my mind I follow a path I have walked many times before.
I imagine the walk in real time. I make notes of what I pass, of what I might see and of the directions I follow.
It takes 42 minutes, just as long as it takes me to actually walk the route.

In the light of the full moon
In the light of the full moon
I took a picture
of a stone and a little sand
on a piece of black cotton.
Maumont, July 13, 2022 Continue reading
The Panorama
A head wearing black glasses,
turns slowly from the left shoulder to the right shoulder.
In the reflections, the landscape glides by.
July 6, 2022.
HD-video with sound, 02:03 min.
Related work: Project (2008)
La Têt
Perpignan (F)
18 June 2022
In collaboration with Martine Viale.
We stand motionless facing each other on both sides of the river, at the boundary of the water. Our spread arms confirm the direction from which the water comes and to which side it flows. Continue reading
