My work has always been strongly influenced by the political events happening around the world. Another side of my work deals with the reaction that political events cause to my vision of the world, which is at time very negative and at times very optimistic.

Since I gave a talk about my work at Transmission Gallery last year, titled "Hope & Despair", my work has mainly been focused on this theme. The recent development of new and faster forms of communication gives us reason to hope for a better future. Thanks to cheaper technology we can now witness political happenings throughout the world. Twenty years ago we could never have witnessed the beating of Rodney King by the US police or the blood bath in East Timor by the Indonesian Government. This amount of information and the public opinion awareness however very often doesn't result in any significant change in certain economic policies. The recent spread of interest in the Internet and the facility of simple computer publishing resulted in a huge amount of information of any sort appearing online, as a clear show of how little real communication can happen in a virtually infinite channel of communication.

This ambivalent situation regarding communication and its limited possibility triggered a series of works on the subject. In 1995 I made a video called "Hope" where I tried to express this dual feeling with a looped sequence of photographs of flying objects, mostly planes and helicopters, and sometimes birds, whilst an especially composed piece of ambient music was playing.

In this exhibition the piece "Hope" has been realised with a low resolution computer programme, with a loop of scanned photographs running on a 286 PC machine.

The gallery will be in complete darkness and only five works will be on display. "Hope", with its orange lit two colours monitor will illuminate a corner of the gallery.

On a back wall, a large black flag poses a direct and intimate question: "Do you cry often?".