'The video artist Alexis Destoop and the choreographer Alexander Baervoets have together created a video installation called Ecce. On two panels, a naked man and woman pose as if in a late-mediaeval triptych, with the middle panel black. There is something about the physiology of their naked bodies. Their breathing seems agitated, the tensing of muscles seems like an anatomical hypercorrection that measures itself against gravity. Not only is an ever-abundant bodily activity palpable on the surface, but the bodies behave so obsessively that they appear to lose control, despite their stylised pose. These bodies are both hyperrealistic and vulnerable. The images were produced by a special process: the dancers performed a slowed quarter turn, and then, using a computer, the video recording of it was artificially accelerated seven times until it reached normal speed. The neutral camera makes every detail visible, regardless of the hierarchy and meanings we usually attach to a body. In this way the camera's detached view is replaced by an affected view, as if the image were a membrane that is constantly being touched. The computer processing enlarges this effect even more, so that the shimmering bodies challenge the spectator's gaze.'
From 'Verwarrend voyeurisme', Jeroen Peeters, De Morgen, 8th October 2003.