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Liesbeth Henderickx
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I often use stone and concrete in my work and apply traditional techniques which are slow and meditative in nature. I enjoy this contradiction between the use of a slow medium and a society in which every second matters. Stone came after using concrete which caused a shift in my working process: from an interest in the ideals of architectural modernism towards ideas on how to reconnect architecture and daily traffic to our closest environment. It became a quest for the values, meaning and origin of certain materials that are present in the urban landscape. These materials are used in a landscape that is continuously subject to physical changes resulting from fleeting and architectural trends. Consequently, they have therefore lost their relation to the energy emanating from palpable matter itself. As the aestheticization of the raw material fades out the material’s true character, one is carried away from its origin. My work is not demonstrative. It is based on the awareness of matter and is often a play of the visible and non-visible. I seek for the viewer to look again, more like an ecological meditation. The focus on form and material is more organic, concerning matter as it exists in and through systems and the character of metabolism as that which exceeds any singular idea of a body. | I often use stone and concrete in my work and apply traditional techniques which are slow and meditative in nature. I enjoy this contradiction between the use of a slow medium and a society in which every second matters. Stone came after using concrete which caused a shift in my working process: from an interest in the ideals of architectural modernism towards ideas on how to reconnect architecture and daily traffic to our closest environment. It became a quest for the values, meaning and origin of certain materials that are present in the urban landscape. These materials are used in a landscape that is continuously subject to physical changes resulting from fleeting and architectural trends. Consequently, they have therefore lost their relation to the energy emanating from palpable matter itself. As the aestheticization of the raw material fades out the material’s true character, one is carried away from its origin. My work is not demonstrative. It is based on the awareness of matter and is often a play of the visible and non-visible. I seek for the viewer to look again, more like an ecological meditation. The focus on form and material is more organic, concerning matter as it exists in and through systems and the character of metabolism as that which exceeds any singular idea of a body. | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:17, 18 March 2019
I often use stone and concrete in my work and apply traditional techniques which are slow and meditative in nature. I enjoy this contradiction between the use of a slow medium and a society in which every second matters. Stone came after using concrete which caused a shift in my working process: from an interest in the ideals of architectural modernism towards ideas on how to reconnect architecture and daily traffic to our closest environment. It became a quest for the values, meaning and origin of certain materials that are present in the urban landscape. These materials are used in a landscape that is continuously subject to physical changes resulting from fleeting and architectural trends. Consequently, they have therefore lost their relation to the energy emanating from palpable matter itself. As the aestheticization of the raw material fades out the material’s true character, one is carried away from its origin. My work is not demonstrative. It is based on the awareness of matter and is often a play of the visible and non-visible. I seek for the viewer to look again, more like an ecological meditation. The focus on form and material is more organic, concerning matter as it exists in and through systems and the character of metabolism as that which exceeds any singular idea of a body.
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Biënnale van België III21 Jun 2019→30 Jun 2019
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PAVED FLOWERS16 May 2019→29 Jun 2019
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Finissage "show me tomorrow, we will go there"16 Dec 2018→16 Dec 2018
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QUELLE BEAUTÉ, QUEL CALME, J’AI VU LES NUAGES ET, AU LOIN, LEURS OMBRES LÉGÈRES…22 Nov 2018→16 Dec 2018
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Show me tomorrow, we will go there. HISK laureates 201822 Nov 2018→16 Dec 2018
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Gezelschap13 Oct 2018→28 Oct 2018
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Unraveling Slowness08 Jun 2018→14 Jun 2018
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Soft Elements of Some Violent Tendencies25 May 2018→27 May 2018
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Can I trust the bank to water my plants?05 Oct 2017
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Trust is not a mood, barely an emotion05 Oct 2017→25 Sep 2018
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HISK Open Studios 201719 May 2017→22 May 2017