Noah Haeck Gormez

Noah Haeck Gormez

Born 1998 in Ghent, Belgium
Lives and works in Merendree / Deinze

Studies

° 2007-08 : Visual Arts Degree / Academy of Fine Arts Eeklo.

° 2018-21 : Bachelor in Visual Arts, Option Painting / LUCA School Of Arts, Ghent.

° 2021-23 : Master in Visual Arts, Option Painting / LUCA School of Arts, Ghent.

° 2023 -24 : Furniture Design and Business management / Syntra MVL, Sint-Niklaas.

Noah Haeck Gormez is a Belgian artist based in Merendree / Deinze. His world is a world of machinery, cogs, fantastic inventions and seemingly mundane objects. From a very young age he was surrounded by machinery and technology, this in combination with a seemingly born-with intrigue into how things work and the need to understand them. Resulted into a lot of opening things up, putting them back together and often making new things out of the disassembled machines and objects. Letting fantasy run wild, the objects admired and created, became more than what they were initially design for.

Fast forward to the current day, the medium of painting and drawing gave way to creating and exploring these machines to research of a deeper depth. In both aspects of the social and cultural position of the machine but also into what they are for Noah. in his practice he goes into conversation with these objects to try and figure out what they are to him and the world we live in. The idea of a ‘blueprint’ allows for a vacuum where an machine is in process of becoming. The blueprint is a design phase, it is personal, and not beholden to any laws. The joy of creating is very much at work and in conversation with the aesthetic aspect of creating and designing. Granted it is an odd subject, but there is beauty to be found in the subject. There is something personal and human about design faults and mistakes, fuck ups and accidental marks that have been corrected. Making the seemingly technical and confusing look of a blueprint more readable and accessible to understand. Noah’s handwriting becomes visible in the work.

In his practice this makes for often absurd objects and unrealistic machines. That often are physics-lawbreaking, math bending and downright impossible. creating altogether new machines and objects. His process is visible and the joy and fun that becomes apparent in the puzzle he makes, once again, make it less formal and allows for the viewer to have an entrance in the works presented. The viewer is invited into the designing process and allowed to fill in what they feel the process is going to result in.