A work that crystallises the fluidity of the project, Register (2016) is a newly produced HD video
projection, the third and last featured in the exhibition. It consists of an animated sequence of
slides taken during a trip to Japan made by the artist in 2008. All the slides were taken in
transient spaces like underpasses, viaducts, stations and docks, and re-assembled into an
anachronistic narrative which forces the viewer to move constantly backward and forward in
time. The soundtrack that accompanies the film is the result of a montage of musical
compositions by Antwerp-based artist/musician Jan Matthé and field-recordings made by
Vonna-Michell of consumer and transitory life in Japan. Combining the presentness of the
environment imbued in the field-recordings with the artist’s post-reflection in the form of image selection and montage, the soundtrack further exposes the poetic and profound simplicity of the
slides. The slides are animated by the artist, who places them on lightbox surfaces as well as
projects them through water. The aquatic element is a filter, whereby images emerge by manually
agitating translucent sheets of paper to capture and refract the projected images. The projecting,
enlarging and orchestration of imagery by analogue and tactile means is combined with digital
means of re-animation.