Eva Steynen Gallery kindly invites you to Roeland Tweelinckx's solo exhibition, 'When it's Right to do the Wrong Thing : Bending the Rules of Functionality'. Within the existing gallery context, Tweelinckx creates a series of interventions and new sculptures.
Tweelinckx plays with the way we perceive reality. Everyday elements in a space are transformed with minimal intervention. Sockets, electricity cables, trestles, walls, pillars, vases or skirting boards are humorously stripped of their functionality and 'bended' into visual poetry, trough a concentrated process of observation. What you see is not always what you see. His work is minimal, refined and enters into a dialogue with the space and viewer. Tweelinckx does not impose what can be seen, he gives freedom to seeing. Looking at the world around us, with a quip.
Small interventions sometimes lead to surreal situations. They bring a relief in the conceptual and a pleasure in viewing. With a subtle irony, Tweelinckx breaks through the conventions of perception – “where is the work?” – and encourages us to think about the daily reality surrounding us. An attentive look at what is and what is not.
Roeland Tweelinckx (°1970 B, lives and works in Kontich) has a Master's degree in visual arts (KASKA) and a Master's Research (Sint-Lucas and University of Antwerp). His work is included in various institutional collections, including the Flemish community (B) and is in a large number of private collections in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom.