René Dissel & Victor Dissel (NL) – Melt

Event Introduction

Melt is a temporary installation by photographer René Dissel and multimedia artist Victor Dissel in which father and son merge their artistic practices. Inside a monumental ice block weighing 2 tons, a photo is frozen in time. René Dissel’s images of people submerged in water and ice, serve as a poetic symbol of human fragility, transformation and impermanence. It invites us to slow down: to soften, to be present and to literally ‘melt’. While his father explores the photographic qualities of ice, multimedia artist Victor Dissel investigates the interplay between digital media and natural elements such as water, earth, and ice. For this edition of Melt, he created a composition made entirely from sounds produced by ice itself. The work reveals that even within something seemingly frozen or still, movement, sound, and experience continue to exist. For René and Victor, this work also holds personal meaning. It symbolizes their process of opening up and letting go — as humans, as artists, and above all as father and son. 

Together we Melt. 

René Dissel & Victor Dissel
René Dissel is a fine art photographer and musician based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. His creative journey began as a child with the simple joy of exploring nature through a plastic Kodak camera and was later rediscovered during a successful music career. This led to early recognition when his landscape photograph Catch a Plane won the National Geographic Landscape Award in 2007, marking a defining moment in his artistic practice. In the following years, he developed his photography by exploring themes such as transformation, impermanence, and our relationship with nature through different series of landscapes, portraits, and abstract work.

Victor Dissel is a new media artist with a strong foundation in composition and sound design. He is known for his audiovisual installations that explore the intersection of digital media and the natural world. His artistic practice is driven by a central question: how do we relate to change? At the core of his work lies a fascination with balance – not as a fixed state, but as a dynamic tension between forces that attract, challenge, and momentarily hold each other. 

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