Constellation of sculptures in Diskus Aalst as a part of my master in painting during 2024-2025.

This series of sculptures explores the delicate boundary between two seemingly opposing actions: archiving and displaying. Although these notions are often considered opposites, they can confront, overlap, and even coincide. Everything that is displayed is simultaneously archived, and everything that is archived carries the potential to be shown again.

The sculptures refer to freezers, functioning as sculptural reproductions of these controlled environments. They embody the tension between preservation and presentation while evoking the image of a carefully regulated space — one that is never neutral, where every condition is deliberately determined. In this sense, the sculptures can be read both as archive and display: controlled systems that mediate visibility and meaning.

The exhibition space in which they appear extends this logic, operating as a larger, carefully calibrated constellation. Light, temperature, spatial arrangement, and the viewer’s movement all influence the reading of the work. The sculptures, their conceptual foundations, and the surrounding space unfold within a layered structure where boundaries blur and meanings shift. The result is not a neutral display, but an active interplay between work, space, idea, and viewer — a sculptural ecology in constant negotiation.

Wood, metal, oil paint, TL-lamps, plexiglas, concrete, plaster, varnish.