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cc Binder, Puurs, 2025
recuperated sun awnings, wooden substructures
various dimensions
Soft shapes explores how familiarity and estrangement can coexist within a single object. The faded, striped fabrics of reclaimed sun awnings evoke associations with domesticity, shelter, and outdoor leisure. At the same time, the sculptures themselves appear to lack that sense of protection. Resting on the floor or leaning against a window, they seem unanchored, without a fixed place or destination. This uncertain positioning gives the forms a fragile, temporary presence. Within this vulnerability lies a subtle reference to the growing precarity of housing and living conditions in contemporary society. Not as explicit representation, but as an implicit suggestion embedded in the material itself: fabric that once offered protection from sun and weather now functions as a delicate, incomplete covering, stripped of its original purpose.
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