Portfolios

(FEATURED)⁰¹: SOLACE

A project by Iwert Bernakiewicz and Lennert Baerts / Solace is a limited cd bundle that includes Lennerts two new albums: "Channeling The Flood" and "Times Change And So Must We". Besides the two records it also contains a selection of artwork created by Iwert Bernakiewicz. It comes in two variatons, an edition of 64 numbered satchels and 32 numbered and signed handmade cardboard boxes.

(FRAG)⁰⁵: Life on a plate

Scaled down human encounters, living on a plate: tête-à-tête, walking the dog, bike encounter, gaining height, a walk in the woods, etcetera. {work in progress}

(FRAG)^02b: Kaleidobelge

Wondrous compositions of Belgian fragments. You can look upon the images as the embodiment of the memory or as an alternative reality. Landscape and built environment are turned into themselves and form is driven towards its limits.

(FRAG)¹¹: Nightwalks / forests

Places and moments from nightwalks and forests offer themselves by ‘just being present, at a certain spot in time and space’, soothing the ever running mind. A selection of 101 Nightwalks images and 'the big book' with 31 forest prints are on expo at CCHA from 2/4 > 6/6/2021._____(pdf)

(FRAG)⁰⁶: Let it glow

A research towards reverse engineering photography. Images loaded with light slowly fade into darkness, stressing transience and the temporary. {work in progress}

(DOC)⁰³: a fine jazz concert

Documenting the sold-out 'SIX' CD-release concert for Orbit Folks at C-mine Genk, 7.3.2019, (www.orbitfolks.com)

(DOC)⁰⁴: Japanese memories

Slowly developing memories in random order of two road trips through Japan (2000-2001). Gazing into a different, wondrous society with constant amazement for the intense visual literacy, deep traditions and blade-runner like environments showing a possible future.

(Sc)⁰¹: Biolace/ Texture

Scenography for the expo Biolace, a confrontation of historic lace with textile growing ideas by professor Carole Collet. (in cooperation with studio Annamariacornelia for Texture, Kortrijk)

(AR)⁰⁶: TSKR/ house extension

Documentation of the renovation and extension of a family home in Tongres by Tom Schreurs & Katrien Raedts architecten.

(AR)⁰⁷: HICKX/ loft interior

Documentation of the transformation of a former garage in Brussels into a loft. Interior and furniture design by Herman Venderickx.

(FRAG)⁰⁹: Letting yourself out

Walking meditations, letting go emotions, capturing immediate surroundings, trees and worldly details while soothing running thoughts. {work in progress}

(AR)⁰⁸: Broekx Schiepers/ house extension

Documentation of the renovation, extension and interior design of a family home in Zonhoven by Broekx-Schiepers.

(Doc)⁰²: Jazzy afternoon sessions

A personal view of two jazzy afternoon sessions; the recording of a new set by TimFinoulstTrio and Orbit Folks.

(FRAG)⁰³: Verkavelingsverhalen

Tales of the allotment (Verkavelingsverhalen) is a status quaestionis about the use of the allotment in Flanders acting as a frame of reflection in relation to five research themes around the future of the allotment in Flanders (for UHasselt faculty of architecture & arts). The themes concern density, energy and re-use, allotment compaction, parochial stories and underutilized public buildings and places._______(pdf)

(AR)⁰²: Le Corbusier Révisité

Study visit Bachelor 3 Architecture UHasselt faculty of architecture and arts, 30.3. - 1.4.2014

Chapelle de Notre Dame du haut, Ronchamp

Couvent de la Tourette, la Tourette

Unité d’habitation, Marseille

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(FRAG)⁰¹: Tales of the (un)expected

Tales of the unexpected is a series which emerged from the intuition something derailed spatially in Belgium. The images are rather ordinary, mostly front and back. I didn’t have to travel far and worked from my immediate neighborhood: two childhood spaces in Genk and morning and evening strolls in my current hometown Hasselt._____(pdf)

(AR)⁰¹: Aldo van Eyck / playgrounds

1992: An early foray into architecture photography documenting Aldo van Eycks children's playgrounds for the master thesis.

A two week exploration into the condition and atmosphere of reciprocity between kids and the city using a bike, a notebook, an inherited 6x6 folder camera and a self made panoramic camera.

(FRAG)^02v: Kaleidovoyage

Kaleidovoyage: wondrous collages as fragments of architecture visits. Are these embodiments of memories or alternative realities? Is this how a four dimensional being looks upon our three dimensions? (Escher/ Vasarely/ Vonnegut/ Tati) Can architecture be funny? Landscape and the architecture are turned into themselves and form is driven to the limit.

(Frag)⁰⁰: images retrouvées

Rediscovering images from my archives, which in one way or another have a special meaning to me. {a very slow and ever changing work in progress}

(FRAG)⁰⁴: A House Unfolded³

(AHU)³: a visual reflection on Belgian house ownership:

(AHU)¹: Helping Hand, the support without which the desire for house ownership can’t be realized.

(AHU)²: Küchenglück, a preserving jar to keep the dream come true well protected.

(AHU)³: Birds cage, the prison it may become.

(AR)⁰³: Dom Hans van der Laan, Vaals

After the Vespers:

Sint Benedictusberg Abbey, also Mamelis Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery established in 1922 in Mamelis, Vaals, Netherlands and designed by the architects Dominicus Böhm & Martin Weber. In 1968 Dom Hans van der Laan designed an extension to the abbey based on his theory of the plastic number. The picture series shows the abbey church after the Vespers, low autumn sun is projecting light through 'plastic numbers' and plays with remaining incense.

(FRAG)¹⁰: Inner gardens

Inner Gardens is a tale of care. During a nightwalk along the railway tracks I stumbled upon a well hidden ‘wild gardening project’. Someone took a piece of land and put greenhouses on them, strangely interconnected and surrounding a young fig tree. Inner Gardens one could say, in a double meaning: the mind as a garden and within a greenhouse. Small protected places where a human was creating an order of its own. These images are offset against one picture in colour, a vivid memory of my grandmother's garden.

(Process)⁰²: Tactics

The research seminar TACTICS (master (interior) architecture UHasselt Fac-ARK) investigates the exact and strategic use of drawings and models for the discovery of possibilities within the creation of architecture through the transformation and presentation of a project by creation of images and scale models. In 2015 we cooperated with Pierre Hebbelinck and presented the results of our explorations in an exhibition at his atelier.

(Doc)⁰¹: Japanese Skills

A discovery of Japanese skills during two elaborate road trips somewhere 2000-2001.

Visiting several living national treasures and craftsmen, documenting skills ranging from crafting Hanko stamps, rebuilding lanterns, the creation of Shintō swords, the process of crafting washi paper in all its numerous forms and the process of making classic and modern ceramics and the famed Japanese Tea Ceremony.

(Process)⁰¹: 216cc Architecture

216cc architecture is the result of an exercise in analyzing architecture where 2nd bachelor architecture students create a traveling group exhibition. Basis of the exercise is the documentation available in the university library. Per project three small models (with a maximum volume of 216 cubic centimeters) are made and collected in one protecting poplar wood showcase/box. The exhibition is presented and discussed outside the university to bring out our knowledge and bring in external reflection.