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Can an object be the shadow of itself? This is the question Vincent Scheers seems to be asking in this exhibition.
For him, objects have long had a coefficient of danger. In his works their emotional and fictional charges are stretched to the maximum. Vincent Scheers has no intention of leaving objects in the tranquility of their banality. We often find ourselves facing his works like collectors in search of fetishes. The materials, shapes, and textures are familiar and peaceful, yet everything seems to shift into the strange harshness of emptiness and anxiety. While his objects are not readymades, they are not simply sculptures either. They reflect our stories and some of our dreams or fears.
But can this danger be turned against the objects themselves? Can we put them at risk of their own definition, transforming them into fleeting shadows, frightening melancholic memories of themselves? Can the overemphasis of its function cause the object itself to cease existing? In this…
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Can an object be the shadow of itself? This is the question Vincent Scheers seems to be asking in this exhibition.
For him, objects have long had a coefficient of danger. In his works their emotional and fictional charges are stretched to the maximum. Vincent Scheers has no intention of leaving objects in the tranquility of their banality. We often find ourselves facing his works like collectors in search of fetishes. The materials, shapes, and textures are familiar and peaceful, yet everything seems to shift into the strange harshness of emptiness and anxiety. While his objects are not readymades, they are not simply sculptures either. They reflect our stories and some of our dreams or fears.
But can this danger be turned against the objects themselves? Can we put them at risk of their own definition, transforming them into fleeting shadows, frightening melancholic memories of themselves? Can the overemphasis of its function cause the object itself to cease existing? In this…
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