Duologue is an exhibition that gives both Brussels artists a chance to go full steam ahead. The works of Christian Noirfalise and Luc Vandervelde Lux are very different, but have many similarities. For instance, they often work around the same themes and with similar materials – remnants of everyday life – but each with their own artistic intervention, expression and specific angle. Their interpretation is inevitably personally coloured.
Currently, Luc Vandervelde Lux is working on reproductions of tree trunks, a ‘work in progress’. These are prints of tree trunks made of natural rubber. This project, which he started some time ago
started some time ago, grew out of his fascination with trees. Trees have existed for millions of years and make our existence possible. They are the essence of life. They regulate water management, promote biodiversity, filter air and dampen heat… all reasons to cherish them. From this observation came the idea to archive old tree trunks and present them in a continuously evolving art project.
Christian Noirfalise’s work focuses on impermanence, beauty in fragility. He builds and paints wondrous shelters that offer fleeting protection from time. He plays with architectural forms and concepts that both draw on bygone eras and test new, future possibilities. Thus, his shelters become strange yet familiar-looking cocoons that welcome you for a journey beyond time. They stretch their wings, coming flying in a swarm and creating the fleeting illusion of safety and connection on the fringes of space and time. Hovering between past and infinity, they have something utopian yet fundamentally reassuring. Perhaps they invite us to open our eyes, to consciously deal with and accept impermanence, to appreciate its beauty for what it is.