KIM WINDMOLDERS
Photographer & Collage Artist

About

1973, Herk-de-Stad, Belgium. I currently live in Hasselt, Belgium.

My work consists of photography and collage work. I am interested in the subjective experience of time and our relationship with time as a constraint or a driving force for life. 

Slow time is the main focus of my photographic series Phantom Flowers. I photograph the effect of time on funerary flowers in resin that have been exposed to the elements like sun and rain for more than 30 years. This is an archival project about the effect of time on the human efforts of preservation.

Extremely fast time is the focus of another photographic series called Phosphene Photos in which I photograph the experience of pressure applied to the closed eyelid and the quick visual transients it produces. This project is about the ephemeral, the volatile experience that only lasts milliseconds before it changes into something else.

My collage work Kollaroids is a 1000 collages project about compressed time (and space) where I assemble parts of old photographs taken at different times, at different places and by different people into a new universal moment or hypermoment. The result is a new trivial or absurd scene in which the viewer experiences different times and places at once as if they exist in one singular point.

Kim Windmolders - 2023