You Look Twoderful Threenight

Artist Marc van Buul explores images and their value and meaning in You Look Twoderful Threenight. You can see his exhibition from November 28, 2026, to January 10, 2027, at ACEC Ondergronds. What happens to images when control over their meaning, composition, and value is relinquished? The starting point is Inflationary Language, a 1947 literary narrative by Victor Borge. In it, Borge devises a linguistic construct in which words are adapted to a world where everything is becoming increasingly expensive. ‘Wonderful’ becomes ‘twoderful’, ‘forehead’ becomes ‘fivehead’, ‘Anyone for tennis?’ becomes ‘Anytwo five elevennis?’. You Look Twoderful Threenight Artist Marc van Buul translates this principle of inflation to his own photo archive. He has an outdated computer program determine which images from it are valuable, based on texture and pixel density. What emerges lies between what is preserved and what is subtracted from the image. In doing so, Van Buul subjects the image to a new kind of economy, in which value no longer arises from meaning, but from quantity. About Marc van Buul Marc van Buul (Arnhem, 1992) is a photographer and artist. Through photography, he collects fragmented images from his surroundings. Van Buul: “I focus my attention on small deviations and moments when reality, as it were, misspoke. My photo archive grows out of a curiosity about what plays out at the edge of our attention.” As a child, Van Buul wanted to become a comic book artist. The tendency to shift and supplement reality still plays an important role in his artistic practice. For him, photography is not only a way to capture reality, but also to reimagine it—perhaps differently. Time and again, series with their own associative narrative emerge from his photo collection.