Het Geluid Van Witte Rook (The Sound Of White Smoke) is the sound impression of Joris Van De Moortel’s first solo show at Galerie Krinzinger.

Joris Van De Moortel’s artworks are often constructed as resounding boxes, which are constituted by the relics of past musical performances. As a musician, he indeed plays and performs on stage and then uses the music instruments and sometimes also parts of the stage to build the final artworks. By deconstructing the instruments and objects used for the performance and then reassembling them, he cathartically gives his own interpretation of ready-made, finding a balance between order and chaos.

The exhibition displays a selection of his “boxes”, which are part of a previous musical performance. A sculpture produced during the concert-performance is remaining on stage as an archive of the past performance as the musicians were being cast during the concert. The performance piece is similar to a sacred rite with biblical metaphors. The seven elements: glass, smoke, fire, wax, white, nature, vandalism are representing sacraments.