The license plate tales (2022-…)

The license plate tales is a concept where I take pictures of license plates. They are license plates that form words. They are plates that coincidentally form words. They are not personalized plates and the numbers around the words are erased for privacy reasons. The more license photos you collect, the more or bigger sentences you can make with the different plates, love letters or even books.

-ZOO
Pictures of found animals suspended by nylon wire in an open cage

-THE KEYS TO ALL YOUR PROBLEMS
Hung in frame: 2 pictures of KEY and CLE plus a real key

-GOING NUTS
2 autonomous works originally unrelated and made separately brought together : a real NUT, a canvas with NUT painted on it with walnut ink, a photograph with license plate NUT

-THE BODY OF YOUR DREAMS
Hanging on a velcro surface. People can add body parts, the people can hang it and make their own body. They can also add additional elements for example the word ABS.

-ART AND ALMOST ART
ART gets an old-fashioned expensive frame around it, Almost art gets no frame

-OPPOSITES
Opposite words are brought together

-HOMOPHONES
The same sounding words are brought together

Gepubliceerd door Justine Cappelle

Creative non-fiction I am Justine Cappelle. I work with various mediums, but primarily with documentary film. I work ecologically with simple materials or found materials. With them, I construct a world that runs parallel to our everyday reality. I look for situations where life seems almost fictional or science fiction, but is actually pure reality that we cannot see due to our limited senses or our idea of what reality is. I aim to depict those other realities and dimensions, connect us to them, and thereby offer a different perspective on important societal themes. Themes I have worked on include, for example, waste in the sea or the invisibility of technology in the air. My movies screened on festivals as IDFA, Kassel docfest, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, …