Ief Spincemaille
Metal, motor, electronics, one person.
2011
An instrument with a rotating disc containing a slit, spinning at 24 fps. You see the world like a still movie: movement becomes fragmented.
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Metal, electronics, plastic, one person
2010
A perception device which, by pressing a button, briefly opens and closes a shutter in front of your eyes. You see the world as if it is a photo.
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Metal, optics, light, one person.
2025
An object to look straight at the sun, or any other light source, through your finger. You see a dark space containing a bright red sphere in the middle, as if looking through a telescope at a red moon or a glowing sun.
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Pen, paper, tape, stick, two persons
2024
A method to create a drawing together. Two people hold a stick that is attached to a drawing instrument. Before starting, both think of something they want to draw, without telling the other what it is. They then begin to draw together.
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Polished aluminium, two persons
2025
A mirror, shaped like a knife, projects your eyes onto another person’s face. Younsee another person looking at you, with your own eyes.
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2011
Letter to the furthest neighbour on the exact opposite side of the earth.
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Instrument to look through a flame
30 x 40 x 4 cm
Metal, gas, aluminium, 3D printed PLA, one person
2024
An instrument to look at the world through a flame. A veil of blue fire stands between your eyes and the world, acting as a natural filter.
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Foam, webbing, one person/small group
2017
Ropes of 11 and 5.5 meter, allowing different ways of sitting, being and playing together.
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Metal, electronics, camera
2013
96,000 images, printed onto an equal number of small cubes, revealing the lengthening and shortening of days over the span of a year.
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Pigment, water, mirror, glass, one person.
2024
A tilted mirror inside an aquarium filled with blue water, producing a gradient that evokes a fragment of sky or a state of blue immateriality.
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Mixed material, electronics, one person.
2009
A one-person machine that generates a visual fade-in and fade-out of the surrounding environment.
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Electroncs, felt, metal, one person
2026
An instrument with remotely controllable rotating shutters. The shutters alternate between two ways of seeing: when open, a view of the surrounding space; when closed, the inside of the shutter becomes a mirror.
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Glass, metal, one person.
2014
A portable mirror held beneath your eyes, projecting the ceiling onto the ground.
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Wood, paint, electronics, one person.
2022
A small rotating object attached in front of your eyes, creating an ephemeral shape in the space before you.
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Electronics, marble, wood, one person/small group
2025
A light rotates behind a marble, completing one rotation every minute. As it moves, it creates an ephemeral shape that appears to pass through the stone, revealing fleeting moments of illumination within its opaque surface.
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Dibond print
2012
A 360-degree image of the sky in the desert of Ksar Tarda, Morocco, capturing the strong contrast between the light blue at the horizon and the dark blue at the zenith.
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Water, pigment, electronics, one person/small group
2021
An hourglass filled with dark-tinted water. When turned upside down, the light from a lamp at the bottom slowly fades simulating the falling of the night within an interior space.
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Textile, various communities
2017-ongoing
A 60-meter-long rope placed in public spaces and neighborhoods with which Spincemaille proposes different shapes and movements.
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2017
A museum for the unknown, made out of rammed earth, installed during two weeks on the lawn of the Sint-Maartensdal residential complex in Leuven.
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Glass fiber, textile, community of Zwartberg (Genk)
2019
A modular structure that during sunset gradually shifts from one configuration to another, aligning its transformation with a natural phenomenon that unfolds in real time.
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2011
A website and three mirrors placed on the lawn of the Sint-Maartensdal residential complex, Leuven, through which people could reserve sunlight.
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2011
A straight tube measuring 11.3 kilometres in length held by 240 people visualising the curvature of the earth.
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A second-hand bicycle factory repurposed to recreate five iconic works of modern. Instead of old bicycles, 261 amateur paintings are introduced into the factory’s system.
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A temporary exhibition held within the confines of an Abbey.
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2013
A tower made from forty tons of undisturbed earth and built with the help of 120 volunteers, serving as an observatory to look at the sky.
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2017-ongoing
A patented braiding installation to braid oversized Ropes, serving as an installation to braid Ropes with small communities.
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