Describing himself as an artist of reconsideration, he continuously revisits, reinterprets and reconfigures images, objects and materials.
Alexander Bossuyt (Belgium) develops a practice situated at the intersection of painting, object-making and installation. Describing himself as an artist of reconsideration, he continuously revisits, reinterprets and reconfigures images, objects and materials. Working across different media, he combines abstraction and figuration to create new visual constructions from found materials, art-historical references and everyday objects.
His work often begins with a process of dismantling and recontextualization. By separating forms from their original function, Bossuyt creates a tension between recognition and estrangement, between the familiar and the indeterminate. Within this approach, image, support and display are not treated as separate elements, but as equally important components of a single sculptural proposition.
Bossuyt investigates the limits of representation and the conventions through which we experience art. His works operate as open systems in which association, ambiguity and materiality take center stage. Rather than offering fixed meanings, they invite viewers to engage in a process of observation and interpretation, continually questioning the act of looking itself.