A central aspect in the artistic practice of Lode Geens is the manipulation of the found object. In more recent work has been a shift of the appropriated object to the imitation of it. Geens chooses everyday, familiar objects, often produced industrially and unattractive from the aesthetic point of view: a heap of cobblestones, an orange fence, … The accurate reproduction of the objects are stripped of their duties.Their technical skills are abstracted. Thus a limp plastic orange fence made in metal, to thereby transforming into a hard erect decorative sculpture. The realism of the existing object misled and then takes us to the unveiling of existing conventions. (text by Hans Theys)
