Jean-Marie Bytebier -AB.ad. m or even continue to be

or even continue to be flogged

The young photographer uses archival footage found online as a starting point

Published by MACK (London)

And yet he clearly takes an interest in the medium itself - in his attempts to capture on film the very act of taking pictures

Jean-Marie Bytebier -AB.ad. m or even continue to beJean Marie Bytebier (1963) is a Belgian artist, whose work references several 20th century painting traditions in which the unfinished and the notion of absence play prominent parts. With his paintings Bytebier creates an intriguing world of often undetermined landscapes; a foliage of silent and blurry spaces devoid of human beings but in which the cultural remnants of humanity subtly seep through. Three decades of artistic practice are now gathered