Look Who's Talking: mountaincutters (FR)
From the rooftop to the exhibition floors, join a tour with mountaincutters as they unfold a practice rooted in material exploration. The artistic duo will guide us through their work, observing the transformation of materials, the passage of time, and the symbolic dimension of primordial forms.
Discover their two site-specific installations that form poetic compositions of materials and patterns. Between stillness and movement, they use experimentation and formal research to reveal sedimented layers of meaning, manipulating matter like archaeologists would dig through layers of earth.
Guided tour in French.
Exhibition view: Eline Willaert
mountaincutters (b. 1990) is a hybrid identity, an artist’s collective working in Brussels. With a focus on in-situ sculpture, they draw on the connection between human beings and the environments they inhabit. Their steel structures, glass elements, ceramics, fabrics and organic materials, as well as their poems and copper circuits form temporary ecosystems, in which energy is channeled between the human, the organic and the inanimate. Their work has been presented in solo exhibitions show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); Meessen Gallery, Brussels (2024); Centre d’Art Neuchatel (2022); La Verrière Fondation Hermes, Brussels (2021); and in group shows in different institutions such as Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, (2021); Kindred Spirit, Lisbon (2024); Kyiv Biennal, Vienna (2023). They are part of collections such as Plateforme 10 -– Mudac, Lausanne, Middelheim museum & collection of the Flemish Community, Antwerp, Collection du FRAC PACA, Marseille.
