Human for Scale
Maxime Brigou - in Newspace
show 20.11.2021 - 19.12.2021
'Human for Scale' presents the work of Maxime Brigou (°Roeselare - 1992). The artist will display sculptures from the series 'Coup d'Oeil' (2020 - present).
'Human for Scale' is a lingual reference to the main idea embodied in these series of sculptures: the confrontation they pursue with both light, space and the passage of time. An image can only be genuine if it also behaves the way we do as humans beings . - Maxime Brigou
Strange colors, shapes and shadows strain against the semitransparent surface of Maxime Brigou’s sculptures, as if attempting to break through. The exhibition Human for Scale consists of a new series of work that brings Brigou’s fascination with time into being. Depending on the time of day, the images are constantly shape-shifting, from seemingly flat to immeasurably deep. In daylight, the sculptures reflect the hours as they first flash by and then stretch endlessly – regardless, in a state of flux. Rather than thinking in terms of solitude and unchanging forms, she always tries to find the core, l'Image. She strives to make the seemingly elusive, suggestive primal image, visual and tangible.
Exoskeleton
Aaron-Victor Peeters
- in Frontspace
show 20.11.2021 - 19.12.2021
Homony Korine recently said, "You can't make a road movie anymore because everyone has GPS. It's impossible to lose yourself anymore."
Aaron-Victor Peeters' work is about being on the road, physically or otherwise. By collecting motorbikes and everything related to it, he tries to create a romantic world in which one can get lost. As an artist, he dissects the archetypes of the proverbial and physical road and thus reacts to contemporary society, in which it has almost become a myth to be free.
In a world of low-emission zones, transmigrants and self-driving cars, the theme of the road is inevitable. The post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the work is a contemporary version of the search for a new world that mankind longs for. Aaron-Victor tries to create such a world by using the ruins of the past to walk (or ride) down undiscovered roads. The drawings, paintings, installations and collages are a foretaste of how, in the not-so-distant future, we will look back at the past, with memories that fade and do not always create a sober image.
The title 'exoskeleton' refers to the installations Aaron-Victor builds around wrecks of cars, motorbikes or boats. The exoskeleton acts as a protective shell that allows the vehicle to be transported in a different way. When we reverse this step, the vehicle takes on a mythical meaning.
Pardon My French
Alice Vanderschoot
- in Showcase
show 20.11.2021 - 19.12.2021
We use "Pardon My French" to disguise our curses and apologise for our remarks before we have even uttered them. We apologise at every turn for our behaviour. In our individualised little islands, in a world flooded with information, are we ʻwokeʼ enough?
Alice Vanderschoot (° Zwevelzele - 1989) shows sculptures, colourful three-dimensional works, in which she investigates the meaning of everyday objects. She assembles forms that often bear archetypal or mythical features, often with an absurd, cartoonish result. During a process of appropriation, adaptation, copy-paste and transformation, new layers of reality emerge.
Vanderschoot is not averse to art history, popular culture and symbolism. She dissects with a childlike amazement and transforms words, images and elements into her own formal language that makes a lasting impression.
I love that world where everything is at your fingertips, with its flash images and fast, visual communication. Popular visual culture and styles mix. I also wonder whether there is still room for the author of his own visual language, or whether it is all becoming collective property. This world is the archaeological site from which I pick up images, copy-paste them and make them my own.
A meandering and bottomless wine bottle, a yellow boxing glove leaning out in the corner or a stray joker in a card game are a few individuals (antagonists) who fail to colour within the lines. Dixit A. Vanderschoot.