HAR/DWARE

About this activity.

Photography without a camera: Wim Bosch’s work does not begin with making images, but with images that already exist.
Working from a self-assembled archive of newspaper and architectural imagery, he selects and rearranges fragments. What remains are details — a hand, a gesture, a cut- out — that detach from their original context and acquire an autonomous visual charge.
Within this process, a desire for structure and control collides with a reality that resists being fully shaped. The modernist promise of a constructed world begins to crack — and it is within this tension that Bosch’s visual language emerges. Architecture functions as a point of reference: grid, plan, and construction as ways of organising the world.
At the same time, meanings begin to shift. What becomes visible is inseparable from what disappears. Original narratives dissolve, while new associations emerge. Document and manipulation intertwine.
Since the series Plaquettes (2022), this investigation has taken on a physical form. Photographic fragments are embedded in materials such as concrete, wood, and resin. The fleeting nature of the image is confronted with weight, hardness, and duration. Images appear fixed, yet continue to point towards something unstable and in flux.

In HAR/DWARE, a visual world unfolds that is both constructed and undermined — where fragments of reality move between recognition and estrangement. A world that exposes the fragility of our constructed reality and invites us to look again — and keep looking.

You’re warmly invited to the opening of Wim Bosch – HAR/DWARE on Sunday, May 31 at Noon

The opening words will be given by Margo Slomp, lecturer-researcher at the Frank Mohr Institute.

No need to RSVP — everyone is very welcome!

CAMPIS.

Location.

Kunstpodium CAMPIS
Kerkstraat 31
9401 GV Assen
www.campis.nl/