from press release:
Gallery Nostrum presents: What remains…
22.10.22 – 23.12.22
Vernissage: Saturday 22nd October 15hr -18hr.
Participating artists: Dilum Coppens, Hadrien
Loumaye, Axelle VM Philtjens, Mathieu V Staelens, Francesco
Strizzi.
With the question, what
remains…? Comes the insinuation that something has been lost, removed,
destroyed or forgotten.
What that could have been, be it corporeal, spiritual or
temporal, was at the forefront when selecting the work for this first, group
exhibition at Gallery Nostrum.
What remains… is an exhibition of
five artists living and working in Belgium.
Dilum Coppens (1993 Asse, Be)
is preoccupied with meaning and the search for its true nature. He intertwines text
and imagery, mythology and modern references. From the surviving fragments of
ancient texts (the rest being lost or deliberately destroyed) he invites
multiple interpretations that refuse to be tied down. It appears at
first glance, many elements or distractions have been removed from these
paintings by Hadrien Loumaye (1999
Brussels, Be). The saturated colour palettes and the delicate nervousness
of the gestures, creates an ambiguity to produce canvases that defy their
scale. What remains of you, by Axelle
VM Philtjens (2000 Alken, Be)
was the starting point for this exhibition. She views
the world in layers and transient parts.To her, photography is a tool to expose and dissect these
layers. With the destructive techniques of her experimental polaroids, she
exposes facets to the viewer of themselves and the world that surrounds them. Mathieu V Staelens (1980
Ostend, Be) has a long history of investigating the figure, exploring
identity and the personality industry. With his recent subjects, the mask, the
costume, the meat has be stripped away. In this exhibition, two of Mathieu’s
recent skeletal works are shown alongside two older pieces, where the figure is
absent, leaving small but grandly poetic works. The sculptor Francesco
Strizzi (1990 Guissano, Italy), captures the folded stages of origami
shapes. It is what remains of this meeting that is framed by the light and
shadow on the white plane of the plaster.
Gallery Nostrum
