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EXPO #9 · 05.09.25 – 28.09.25

Vestiges

Vestiges

In Vestiges time becomes tangible. Two artists approach matter as if it were an ancient manuscript: every scratch, every grain, every trace a sentence from a story on the verge of disappearing. What remains is preserved. What threatens to fade is brought back to life.

Drawings whisper against sculptures, shadow speaks to stone.

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Artist
Chantal Pollier, Guillaume Van Moerkercke
Period
05.09.25 – 28.09.25
Curator
Kristof Vander Cruyssen
Location
nodenaysteen, Predikherenlei 4, Gent
Event
Vestiges — cello performance Robrecht Kessels
Newsletter
Finissage Okan-is-me (30.07.25)
Vernissage Vestiges (19.08.25)
Addendum (19.08.25)
Save the date (02.09.25)
Robrecht Kessels — recital zaterdag 20 september (13.09.25)

Texts

exhibitions
Vestiges — Stichting DeNode, Kristof Vander Cruyssen
"We are only vestiges of a past not yet arrived"
Vestiges

Installation views

IMG 2883
IMG 2883
IMG 5703
IMG 5703
Nodenaysteen Ad Vestiges Artist Talk 02
Nodenaysteen Ad Vestiges Artist Talk 02
Nodenaysteen Ad Vestiges FA A4
Nodenaysteen Ad Vestiges FA A4
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Chantal Pollier and Guillaume Van Moerkercke — Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Photo: Dries Celis
Guillaume Van Moerkercke, Hanna Ouaziz, Chantal Pollier and Kristof Vander Cruyssen — Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Photo: Dries Celis
Paul De Cannière, Chantal Pollier and Guillaume Van Moerkercke — Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Installation view Vestiges — Photo: Dries Celis
Robrecht Kessels — performance at Vestiges, 20 September 2025
Robrecht Kessels — performance at Vestiges, 20 September 2025
Robrecht Kessels — performance at Vestiges, 20 September 2025
Robrecht Kessels — performance at Vestiges, 20 September 2025
Chantal Pollier, Robrecht Kessels, Guillaume Van Moerkercke and Kristof Vander Cruyssen — Vestiges, 20 September 2025 — Photo: Paul De Cannière
Photo: Paul De Cannière

Video

Vestiges — aftermovie
Chantal Pollier
About the artist

Chantal Pollier

Chantal Pollier works stone as if it were alive. Her sculptures — often in marble — seek the point where hardness and vulnerability meet: landscapes of flesh, skin as topography, scars as relief. Her works evoke archaeological finds, from a distant antiquity or just as easily…

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Guillaume Van Moerkercke
About the artist

Guillaume Van Moerkercke

Guillaume Van Moerkercke draws with charcoal — raw, black and dusty, at once trace and erasure. His drawings are slow excavations from sketchbooks, memories and visions; the black is not emptiness but an origin, layered and alive, in which forgotten forms surface like echoes in…

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