In this exhibition three emerging artists share a focus on assemblages made primarily from “everyday” objects, emphasising both materiality and its temporality, while approaching it from their own perspectives: Fabiola Burgos Labra (b. 1984, Chile) explores the ephemeral by mummifying fruits, Jacopo Dal Bello’s (b. 1989, Italy) work is influenced by digital culture and archiving and Matthias Odin (b. 1995, France) creates works from souvenirs of spontaneous encounters.
The artists employ found objects or transient materials that recall readymades or Arte Povera, reflecting on contemporary consumerist culture.
The artworks by Fabiola Burgos Labra can be read as representations of, or moments within, a layered, process-based practice. In this practice, she explores not only gender, colonization, and her own family history, but also our culturally determined relationship with materials and the ephemeral. In her search for an innovative approach to objects, she manages to create meaningful and sensitive sculptures and installations through simple gestures and fragile materials. For example, in the series where she crocheted around fruit and vegetables, letting their soft bodies slowly “paint” the fabrics from within.
Burgos Labra is currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She studied art at Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso and completed an MFA degree at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, and is also a Laureate from the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten in Gent (2022- 2023). She mainly works with sculpture, textiles and precarious found objects and materials. In September 2025, she started within the Art & Ecology research group at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Researching the relationship between the weaver and material, offering a way to resist the dichotomy between time and production in industrialised societies.
Jacopo Dal Bello’s work is driven by an interest in how technologies mediate and filter our experience of reality and how they shape our perception of the world. An example is the phenomenon of digital pollution, explored in Experience™ and a series of plaster sculptures that materialise the invisible residue of our online lives. By manipulating familiar elements of digital culture Dal Bello creates frictions, often through humour and absurdity. By combining everyday objects with
historical materials and references, Dal Bello constructs a world that hovers between truth and fiction.
Originally from Northeast Italy, Dal Bello studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at the Cass School of Art and the Byam Shaw School of Fine Art in London. He is currently living and working in Berlin.
Wanderings, spontaneous meeting and adaptations are themes that run through Matthias Odin's work. The artist often draws on his own life and day-to-day experiences. For his practice he searches for what people have in common and what it means to be "us". Odin collects souvenirs from the encounters and friendships he forms along the way, fragments of other people’s lives that become part of his sculptures, assemblages, and installations, reminding us of ready-mades. At the Biennale de Lyon, Odin presented, among other works, a 9-square-meter installation referencing the average living space of a Parisian resident, where he is based. Odin graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux-arts de Cergy in 2023.