Thomas Willemen
CAPSULE
In the installation Capsule, Thomas Willemen sought a way to build the largest possible cube. Limited by the materials he worked with and his knowledge of them, the design became increasingly alienated from its original form. The final construction still attempted to mimic a cube, but is essentially something else. An unusual element in the landscape of Bekegem that remains in the corner of your eye throughout the route.
BIO
Thomas Willemen (born 1994, Belgium) graduated from the Liberal Arts programme at KASK Ghent. His work, which lies somewhere between sculpture and installation, usually starts from an everyday shape: the hexahedron (or cube). He draws this form into the material world and then plays with its building blocks. In this way, each work is a reformation of the same spatial element. One appears light but is heavy, another seems solid but is empty, and yet another is constructed from air. Through contrasts, he creates tension on the boundary between matter and form, plays with illusions and questions the laws of physics. His work has previously been exhibited at In De Ruimte (Ghent), during Bring Your Own Beamer (KERK, Ghent) and at various group exhibitions such as De Donkere Materie (Roest, Amsterdam), Hommage (Bozar, Brussels) and Night Shift (Gouvernement, Ghent).
