ONE FACE/VOICE

Peoples face features are drawn with markers on sheets of plastic: eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth.  Of a group of people, these portraits can be layed on top of each other and form one portrait (of the group). Wichers has realized this concept multiple times in the context of art and education. Photo's below: Museum of Contemporary Art MHKA Antwerp Without Artists No Art organized by NICC. From each portrayed person in the audience a word was asked and written on a yellow piece of paper. The artist retrieved the papers from each person while running up and down to a microphone and loop-machine, each time speaking the word into the microphone while the recorded words build up to one sound wall. The portaits and the words on paper were left as an installation.

In memory of Guillaume Bijl

photo's ©Christine Clinckx

             ©Patries Wichers

INSTAGRAM ART: CYCLOPIMP to be completed

SCREEN IMAGES

Drawing, painting, writing with ink while watching T.V. First image: Exhibition Mechelen, Stad in Vrouwenhanden: all the written sentences were spoken by Wichers as different characters, in different moods and recorded. People could watch the show with headphones while listening to these recordings.

CITIES 180 degrees

At touristic spots people make photo's and panoramic little movies while turning around with their camera's/phones. Wichers decided in Rome, Italy to do the same but with a change of perspective. In stead of standing up and turn around she layed on the ground and turned with the camera 180° around. An additional factor was that this was often considered defiant behaviour. Police, guards or attendants tried to stop her. She executed this action on 49 touristic spots in Rome and edited the clips together to one piece. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/69656738                   

Photo's: Wichers in action by rip Ulla Salömaki, random stills from film by Patries Wichers

CONNECTION WITHOUT BORDERS to be completed

ONE DAY SCULPTURE/performance to be completed

SKINSHED to be completed

TOMBSTONE FROTTAGE

From tombstones or any stone memorials, letters can be rubbed into a desirable text. In covid time the for public closed St.Jacobskerk in Antwerp became during six weeks the temporary studio of the artist. From the tombstones, among others the one of family Peter Paulus Rubens,  she rubbed letters and assembled Sonnet 144 of William Skaespeare on A3 sheets of paper. Only after the whole sonnet was ready and the A3 sheets with the words formed a 15 meter line, it became clear how to proceed further according the following instructions: Place at each end of the line a loudspeaker with a looper and a microphone. Walk across the line and recite the sonnet. When arriving at one end, speak the words of that moment into the microphone and walk further back to the other end while reciting etc. Multivoices will resonate. When the church opened again for the public during two open door days, Wichers was invited to perform this piece Two Loves. 

Photo's: @Christine Clinckx

               @Patries Wichers

VIDEO CALLS

Some colored left over pieces of plasticine kneaded together to a long cilinder shape. Each time Wichers makes a video call with individuals or groups, she makes from the same piece another sculpture inspired by what she hears or sees during the conversation. With the next call the former sculpture gets destroyed and created into a new one, and so on.