About

Gilles Goosen

From Built to Print

2025
This project explores an accessible, analogue screen printing tool that generates unexpected visual outcomes through playful, hands-on experimentation. Moving away from predictable digital methods, the tool invites users to compose geometric shapes directly onto the screen, exposing the frame without a computer. This simple yet generative approach embraces tactility, imperfection, and unpredictability—key themes throughout my practice.

Rooted in a “thinking through making” mindset, the project foregrounds process over polished perfection. Each composition, layered and printed, reveals traces of the handmade—mistakes, overlaps, and human touch—that spark curiosity about how the work came to be. By blurring the line between artist and tool, the project questions authorship and control, letting the tool partly shape the outcome.

The final installation combines a wall of evolving prints with a portable workbench where others can experiment themselves. This transforms the project into both an artwork and a participatory workshop, celebrating collective making and open-ended play. The goal is not just to produce singular finished pieces but to inspire others to pick up tools, embrace imperfection, and explore analogue processes in new ways.

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Supervision: Remvo van Bladel
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