Gijs Gieskes

Eyes

Gijs Gieskes

"A digital variant on this phenomenon can be seen in Gijs Gieskes’s Eye, made by outputting video from a Game Boy Camera using a mod of his own invention. Gieskes includes images of female fashion models, apparently from magazines, rendered by the Game Boy’s low-res capabilities into near-abstract arrangements of fat black pixels. In these moments, the contradictions between graphic and photographic parallel that found in materialist film" - Ed Halter