Vanished Past
"Withheld" began with an image I encountered while cycling through the industrial landscape of Wallonia. I was drawn to a factory structure with its dense network of lines, beams and openings. Rather than documenting the site directly, I translated it into a woven composition. The different elements are compressed into a layered image, making the factory difficult to read at first and creating a sense of distance between the viewer and the place. This distance also reflects the experience of encountering the site from the outside, without direct access. A deliberate opening interrupts the woven image, suggesting something that has disappeared or changed. The work is suspended from a metal construction based on structural forms found in industrial architecture, bringing elements of the original site into the physical structure of the work.
