Category Archives: Guest Artist

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Lucie Lanzini

Lucie Lanzini

13.05 - 24.06.23

Like an Addictioni

Lucie Lanzini is born in 1986 in Belfort (France). She studied at Ecole Nationale des Beaux arts de Lyon (2004-2009). At Art Contest, she received the first price in 2010 and the Macors price at Médiatine in 2018. She had solo exhibitions in Art Brussels (booth of Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles) in 2019, in Maac, Jozsa Gallery, B Gallery (Brussels) and she participated in numerous group exhibitions : Friche Belle de Mai, (Mar- seille) CentreWallonie Bruxelles (Paris), Musée Nissim de Camondo (Paris), Biennale d’Enghien, Hopstreet Gallery, Archiraar Gallery (Brussels), Castillo Corales (Paris), La Vallée, 10N, Botanique (Brussels), DMW Gallery (Antwerp) etc... She was selected for the residency Est Nord Est (Canada) and she studied in Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver) in 2008. She lives and works in Brussels and she is the head of the Sculpture’s de- partement at the Academie Royale des Beaux arts de Bruxelles (Arba-esa).

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Ileana Moro

Ileana Moro

Destrucformation
13.05.23

Ileana Moro (°1992)
Costa Rica. Self-Taught.

lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

Ileana Moro’s artworks are mainly recognized for her use of dark tones, which want to expose the depths and layers of experiences as an instinctive relationship to the invisible things. Her work evokes a place of spiritual yearning, uninhabited, and at the border between life and mystery, with a touch of romanticization that inevitably appears in her process, buried within her daily life. From her point of existence, human beings are constantly being created – in the process of cognition, emotional expression, and all of those self-construction processes, soul development and unfolding. For her it is evident that there is a constant that is beyond what the rational world could offer, and that the intervention of awareness from the higher cosmos is present in each individual.

Some of her works represent abstract themes and isolated forms interacting within each other to achieve intimate emotional issues such as loneliness, grief, mental states, love and spiritual transfiguration to awaken the soul, the unseen. She provokes the one who looks or the one who feels.

Moro seeks to achieve a balance through the transformation from shadow to light, believing that the shadow is a dark omen. A powerful teacher.

Her work takes various forms, such as flat, three-dimensional, photography, and text.

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Tommy Smits

Tommy Smits

(b. 1991), lives and works in The Hague, Th

"Tommy Smits is a Dutch multimedia artist. He works with photography, film and sculpture dealing with archives and ways of framing, to elevate vernacular and everyday imagery into surreal photographic objects. His photography practice searches to innovate and materialize the immaterial photograph, and hides them far away hidden in places for future archeologists to find. Tommy Smits graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and internationally exhibited his work. Smits is the co-director of the 2020 documentary ‘Tommy & Danny in Search of the Future: different reasons for Digging a Hole’ that premiered at Noorderlicht Photofestival 2020."

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Sigurrós G. Björnstóddir

Sigurrós G. Björnstóddir

(b. 1991), lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium

I notice elements in my surroundings, something that catches my eye, oddly placed objects, something strange, or a funny coincidence. Maybe it's a shape of an object or a surprising encounter that attracts my attention at first, but after some simmering, it becomes more than meets the eye. An awkward presence, a mouthwatering atmosphere, or a reminder of memories. How did the fresh flower bouquet end in the trash, why is the ladder in the middle of the swimming pool? Is this a giant match or a long block of wood with a burned end?

PARKING LOT POND AND NEW NAILS
She stops at a red light and notices yet another woman bundled up in a thick coat, hat, scarf and mittens, but bare-legged in the cold breeze. Across the street, a cowboy with a toothpick in the corner of his mouth, is pumping water from a yellow hose across the parking lot. There is a pile of toothpicks around him. How long has he been standing there? The parking lot is beginning to resemble a small pond. She decides to take a shortcut and walks across the park. She bumps into a stone, and it is like the stone is smiling at her. This startled her, but when she looks back, the smile had disappeared, and the stone was the most ordinary stone. She reaches the end of her journey, picks up a pack of new nails and looks forward to going home and adding them to her collection. Some point up and others down, some become worms and others snakes, but nothing is certain.

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Nicolas Zanoni

Nicolas Zanoni

(b. 1995), lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Nicolas Zanoni’s practice is shaped by playing and listening to the materials, focusing mainly on the production process that he sets up. He is using metal as textile in a weaving process, or burning and melting plastic until it looks like marble. His formal language borrows from brutalism and flirts with trashcore, resulting into tactile furnitures.

For this exhibition, Nicolas Zanoni explored the magical and mystical dimension of Charm. As often in his work, he metamorphoses the material. In the same way as a piece of jewelry, aluminum is woven to become a metallic fabric with a scaly texture. He appropriates this metallic surface by flattening it, by compressing it. Therefore he transmutes the aluminum into a material charged with poetry and softness, in its treatment as well as in its final shape. Like a reflection in water, the image that appears in this piece is cloudy and vaporous.

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Manon Van Den Eeden

Manon Van Den Eeden

(b. 1996), lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
© Silvia Cappellari

My artistic practice departs from the versatile formality of everyday objects and our encounters with them. I am interested in the thin line between reality and fiction, the visible and invisible and the ambiguity between form and function. In my work I manipulate existing forms into sculptures and installations that hover between the strange and the familiar. In a making process that alternates between digital and manual labour, elements are parsed, magnified, distorted, merged or multiplied, resulting in a visual language dominated by careful compositions and glossy surfaces, evoking both personal associations and distance.

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