Invitation to the opening

Studio Seine presents the exhibition Almost and barely by conceptual artist Frans van Lent. The exhibition opening will take place on Saturday 15 November 2025 from 3 to 5 p.m. After that, the exhibition can be visited until 9 January 2026*.

Through actions, photography and video, Frans van Lent explores the landscape. Does the landscape have its own autonomy, separate from humans? To what extent does that change when humans are present? Does the landscape then become an environment? Or does every landscape reveal the human element, if it has been observed, selected, defined, and recorded by a human being?
The words almost and barely lie on the edge of perception. They balance on the boundary between what we can capture and what eludes us.
The work of Frans van Lent can be described as a concept-driven research process which is guided by personal experience. Little or no material products are created during the work. Sometimes, an audio recording, or video, or some photographs remain, but very often a work ends in just a text, in which the process is described. These texts evoke an image, with which to make the process concrete, palpable and imitable. A presiding formal aspect to most of these works is a symmetry in time, a beginning and an ending: a process starts with nothing and ends again with nothing. An activity has taken place, an image has been created, and it has also disappeared.

*Please note: Between 19 December and 9 January, the exhibition can only be visited by appointment.