Keywords: Memory-heritage, Connection, Extension, Confrontation , Desire & Semiosis.

Installation overview in the main gallery space at Sint Lucas Antwerp (2023), presented as part of the Autonomous Master program. The exhibition features fifteen ceramic sculptures arranged on a twelve-meter-long elevated wooden platform, evoking the presence of an altar.

Manifestation Black-out Installation artwork deals with the use of candles as a "ritual artifact" in different cultural practices, and the symbolic meaning of candle lighting in contemporary society. He explores the use of candles in four different contemporary frameworks: reflecting, extension, popular mourning and memorials. Through this, he highlights the importance of aestheticization processes, as well as the centrality of this expression to evoke symbolic heritage.

The use of candles in cultural practices, according to the artist, reveals the ubiquity and repetition with which they are lit as a metaphor. He suggests that the lighting of candles in different cultural practices is a way to express devotion, sensual romances, and esoteric rites. He notes that the use of candles in these contexts is functional, but also creative and holds a deeper meaning.

The artist's work highlights how the use of candles in different cultural practices can evoke human emotions and how these emotions regulate cultural systems in social life. He suggests that the lighting of candles can be used to create a sense of solemnity, reverence, and memory, and to create a sense of connection to the past, present, and future.

Exhibition overview at Josilda da Conceição Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2023. The End of Highlights — a duo show with Sander Dekker.

Overview of exhibitions in 2023, Springboard Art Fair, Utrecht (NL) — Solo Show, curated by Leana Boven.