Hans Segers ‘Images Trouvées’ object You want to latch onto

You want to latch onto these past certainties

Cathérine Verleysen and Bart Verschaffel

When things get out of hand

There’s also a certain lack of stability that comes with continual travel

is equally perceptible in language

Hans Segers ‘Images Trouvées’ object You want to latch ontoHans Segers examines the formal properties of a painting. He emphasises how a painting is only a representation and presents it as an imitation of reality, trompe loeil, painted object and elevated art object. References to painting and sculpture are never far away. He chooses a number of abstracted, recurring forms that evoke the thought of a cloud, tree trunk and house. They function as his image library from which he draws to refer to reality. In