The work of Frans van Lent can be described as a concept-driven research process which is guided by personal experience. Little or no material products are created during the work. Sometimes, an audio recording, or video, or some photographs remain, but very often a work ends in just a text, in which the process is described. These texts evoke an image, with which to make the process concrete, palpable and imitable.
A presiding formal aspect to most of these works is a symmetry in time, a beginning and an ending: a process starts with nothing and ends again with nothing. An activity has taken place, an image has been created, and it has also disappeared.