Joris Van de Moortel - Cylinder 6 FW The collection of texts and

The collection of texts and images is both complex and fascinating

he writes about the feeling of stumbling around between images of torture

leaving a sourcebook – a bible – for the identification of longing

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Joris Van de Moortel - Cylinder 6 FW The collection of texts andComics were Joris Van de Moortels first love. His first publication with MER. Paper Kunsthalle (Ghent), the Cylinder series, is not a real comic book series, but the idea is based on the structure of it. The sketches, the colouring, the humour that feels close to the practice: its a work in itself and not just a representation of images. The artist prints one new Cylinder issue on the occasion of each new project or exhibition. Each cahier has a