Extending a long-standing dialogue, the book focuses on Oorebeek’s practice, tracing the movement from public space to artwork and back to the printed page. It probes this process through the interplay of reproduced images and texts, captions, and descriptions. This conversation will delve into the making of O B S T A K L E S, highlighting its attention to format, index, process, translation, metre and materiality, as well as the ways printed matter shapes and reflects artistic practice.

Published on the occasion of Oorebeek's major survey exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, this richly illustrated book presents re-readings of fifty years’ work and the materiality of production. These are numbered according to recollection, organised under headings, and translated from Dutch to English. The translations are coloured by two years of

conversation with editor/designer Will Holder –accounting for ambiguity, rabbit-holes, and an [un]conscious preference for “quasi-” “ofschoon...” “enzovoort.” Repetition, alliteration, and other material, musical and metric devices are placed on the page, quite intentionally, designed “an sich” to facilitate memory and recall; complementing the book’s many scale details of work itself.