1078 Blue Skies / 4432 Days Tapa blanda - 2022

Anton Kusters explores the difficulties of representing trauma, loss of the experience of place, and the act of commemoration. Using an increasingly abstracted and deconstructed representation, he pushes for an ongoing influence of the medium on the work itself. His focus lies on investigating ways of seeing, the mechanisms of memory and remembrance, and the significance of viewer placement and subject-position.
Anton was born in Belgium (1974), and obtained a master's degree in Political Science at K.U.Leuven (Belgium). He studied photography at STUK Leuven (Belgium) and Academy of Fine Arts, Hasselt (Belgium). He lives & works in Belgium and Tokyo.

He has photographed, published and exhibited the Yakuza (2011) and Mono No Aware (2014) works. In 2017 he completed the online epistolary #image_by_image, an experimental public dialogue based on associations of image and word. From 2012 to 2017 he created The Blue Skies Project across different media and platforms, curated by longstanding collaborator Monica Allende (UK). In 2021 he completed the installations Two Hundred and Sixty-nine Steps, Looking up (2017) and There is Nothing Here (2021). He is currently working on several new works and collaborations: the ongoing Zero series, Caduta Massi, La C.H., and On Your Shoulders.