01.  Hertenkamp, C-Print, 14x15 cm, 2009

03.  Ingang, C-Print, 13x9 cm, 2009

08.  Installation view, Horton Gallery, 2009

About De Verontrustende Wereld

As written by Horton Gallery

In "De Verontrustende Wereld" (The Uncanny World), institutional grey boxes protrude from the wall containing small photographs, collected trinkets such as personal diaries, letters and vanity mirrors. In general, these items do not signify "fine art", but the personal, the used, mementos one carries and inevitably "collects" by simply living in the world. Indeed, Ligtermoet's work can feel "authorless" in that her images and objects evoke the feeling of something you have seen or encountered before. Yet, understanding where or when that might have been is where her work confounds. One is always befuddled when encountering the uncanny, locating the origin of one's memory the work of a lifetime.

Along with the boxes, photographs are scattered on the gallery walls. Several pictures of children, a modern looking piece of architecture seemingly plopped in a field, another of what appears to be several drowning animals in turbulent waters. Each seemingly disparate picture is allotted its own position within the gallery. Some are simply pinned on the wall; others are inset into it, each one demanding a distinct encounter from the viewer thus heightening their impact. Understanding the affect of these images may not be possible, yet in Ligtermoet's "Uncanny World", the work quietly threatens the viewer, asking them to understand why and how these images are so calmly violent, and why it seems so disturbingly natural for the images to appear as they do.

See also:
Review by Mara Hoberman for Artforum.com
Ashlyn Davis on 'De Verontrustende Wereld' in Unless You Will magazine (p92-108)
This project is made possible by Mondriaan Fonds

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