"these handmade totems can be seen as old-school throwbacks: manually crafted objects whose physicality takes up space and time as they take us back to a world of face-to-face interactions, before so much of our lives were lived onscreen, at a distance from the real thing, in the anonymity of our handheld devices-heads bowed down, eyes focused 18-inches in front of our noses, brains in the ether,"
"In contrast, the Brussels-based artist's sculptures make you want to move around them-first to see if the sides and backs are different from the fronts, and then to ensure that your memory of what you saw first is accurate. While circumnavigating a sculpture, you also get drawn up close, so that you can savor every detail, which the artist has served up in abundance, and with more generosity than we are used to experiencing-in contemporary art, and in public life, which is anything but civil."
Stacked ceramic columns function as refined, demanding sculptures that reward sustained, attentive viewing. Their handmade, totemic physicality occupies space and time, countering the quick, screen-mediated consumption of contemporary art. Viewers are compelled to walk around each piece to compare fronts, sides, and backs and to verify initial impressions. Close inspection reveals abundant, generous detail across heads, vessels, and recognizable objects stacked into pillars. Some sculptures tower overhead and invite viewers to step back for an overall view before gazing skyward. Clusters of stacked forms create a playful, phantasmagorical forest that encourages meandering and repeated encounters.
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