A box is a box is a box
08 Sep 2022 - 09 Oct 2022
Triphasé presents "A box is a box is a box", a video installation born of a collaboration between Ha...
Triphasé presents "A box is a box is a box", a video installation born of a collaboration between Harold Lechien, Frizbee Ceramics and Gabriel René Franjou.
The main players in online sales enjoy a stranglehold on contemporary commerce. Alongside the considerable quantity of products delivered every day, a large part of their catalog remains ignored or abandoned.
Unsold items are sometimes destroyed, and the return rate on sales nears 20%. E-commerce companies call upon others, specialized in inventory clearance, to repackage and resell these articles in more or less random batches.
Through a video installation, “A box is a box ix a box” invites visitors to an unboxing-exhibition of these randomized boxes: an additional link infiltrates the abstract logic of how goods circulate and offers a material and sensitive experience.
Harold Lechien (1995) is a multidisciplinary artist and musician who lives and works in Brussels. Trough sculpture or through the prism of new media, Harold Lechien strives to distort commercial goods, promotional logic and the language that accompanies them. Regularly exhibited in Belgium and abroad since 2018, his work takes a singular look at the circulation of emotions that emerge from the production and affective reception of images and industrial products. Halfway between design and commercial scenography, his work is deployed through the object, image and video within polymorphous and modular installations, where marketing strategy and contemporary creation meet.
Lisa Egio and Elliot Kervyn live and work between Brussels and London. First trained in anthropology and architecture, from 2019 to 2020 they followed a postgraduate in sculpture at the Royal College of Arts in London. Since 2017 they have been manufacturing porcelain tableware casted from plastic objects under the name "Frizbee ceramics". Egio and Kervyn produce contextual installations that become laboratories for experimentation. With humor and self derision they critically examine structures of object manufacture and consumption. With a particular interest in the loss of control over production techniques and processes, as well as commercial and psychological patterns that channel the consumption of material and abstract objects.
Gabriel René Franjou (1996) is an artist, author and cultural worker based in Brussels. He studies emotion in digital and organic networks, in which connectivity is a creative and critical engine.
The artists are the second to be invited to curate and occupy the " Espace Triphasé", an exhibition space of 170 m2 in the heart of Triphasé.
Triphasé is a space supporting emerging artists’ research. The project was born in a 900m2 industrial building in Anderlecht, on the outskirts of downtown Brussels, in 2021. Antoinette d´Ansembourg and Alice Pandolfo first founded the Ateliers Triphasé and invited ten visual artists per year to occupy them.
“Espace Triphasé”, an exhibition space and experimental laboratory, was inaugurated six months later with the group exhibition "Please Talk Louder" and then Aquaturf, which is now presenting its third exhibition, "A box is a box is a box".
Triphasé is a place allowing artists to meld their theories, intelligence, opinions, determinations; it’s about moving forward together, freely, through a common force.