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Nick Geboers (b.1987) lives and works in Borgerhout, Belgium. As an image-seeker fascinated by the rich history of photography, he is excavating the medium from the functional to the aesthetic. First and foremost an image maker, he deploys a wide variety of photographic instruments and techniques. He is also a collector of photographs that were once made for scientific or descriptive purposes but which appear now - when their context has been lost - as enigmatic artefacts. He presents his own shots and the ‘acquired imagery’ in carefully thought out constellations. These visual constructions provoke a wide gamut of possible readings. Various layers of references and meanings grow thicker by negotiating between the human sensibility and sterile technology. Different photographic traditions and their visual languages form a broad frame of reference, suggesting different ideas and narratives. This allows Geboers to move in a free space between hard and soft sciences. Switching between the position of an archaeologist and a visual author.