ssaliva, ‘Landscape’

24×16 cm
144 pages

“François Boulanger is an audiovisual artist born in Liège, Belgium, in 1983. He started producing music by the end of the ’90s / early 2000s and producing his visual work around 2010. Active under several monikers, he started his experimental project ‘Ssaliva’ in 2011, which today covers the entire spectrum of his work.

Under this alias, he developed hypnotic soundscapes based on sparse rhythms, lush tones and crystallized textures. A personal and romantic rendition of a life amidst nature and city pollution. His work as Ssaliva also consists of documenting equally ethereal and removed places in pictures, two compulsive and lonely processes that have made him accumulate thousands of strange, escapist mental landscapes.

His approach to visual arts is similar to music in terms of process too, stretching images and melodies, compressing bits of it, adding colors and samples until they become part of his own vision. Sometimes ghostly, sometimes sacred, an instantly recognizable form of melancholia.”
Benjamin Munix

Printed in Lithuania by Printing House KOPA
Published by Land Arts & Crafts
© 2021 Land Arts
ISBN 978-2-9575620-0-8