HUSH HUSH brings together five artists who each let silence speak in their own way.
Nina Minnebo seeks beauty in the grotesque, capturing imperfection in a way that seduces rather than repels. Her technique creates a constant vibrating movement, as if her works were still film images—motionless, yet imbued with energy, as if the scene could change the moment you look away.
Jean de Groote paints simple, everyday objects such as a book, a ladder, or a can of sardines, always detached from any context or anecdote. What he seeks is the thing as a thing: the pure essence of the object. In doing so, he reveals the silence, the secret, and the hidden presence of things.
Benny Luyckx explores the contrast between the natural and the artificial. The dots in his works are grids, referring to computer games and digital structures. They are imaginary landscapes: wild nature or an earthly paradise, with a nod to the romantic and idyllic vistas from art history.
Aäron Willem combines faces, objects, and events in a single work, in which different figurative layers collide and merge on the border of abstraction. He sees himself as an artist of synthesis and tries to integrate as many elements as possible into his work in an attempt to summarize life.
In his latest work, Kristof Van Heeschvelde explores an intense and very personal period. The tulips, proud and fragile, carry the beauty of pain and fear with the mask of strength. Meanwhile, the wooden books invite introspection and question the relevance of art, in response to an artistic block he experienced during this period.
