With every solution comes a problem
With his hands-on approach, Gijs Schalkx physically and mentally tests the boundaries of what moves us as human beings. He unravels the possibilities and myths surrounding the solutions with which we have enormously extended our daily mobility over the past century. In doing so, Gijs opens up alternative room to move. His vehicles are visibly rooted in the here and now, yet manage, in all their basic simplicity, to transcend it. They really drive, admittedly rumbling, rattling and raw, but are above all vehicles into the realm of the imagination, where nothing is ever quite what it seems.
In their recognisable simplicity as moped, car and flying bicycle, Schalkx's vehicles sharply expose the complexity of our all-too-linear human drive toward ever faster, ever more efficient, ever further. At first glance they prompt a wondering smile, only to soon raise more serious questions. Questions about how self-evident we take all our driving and flying. About how immensely deeply we have grown into our modern mobility. About de-signing as a strategy to move beyond the known and appeal to the conscience.
Written by Angelique Spaninks
