Artists

Anna van der Ploeg, Lola Daels, Céline Vahsen

Press release

In The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt distinguishes between the world of appearances (the material world) and the world of thought (invisible, conceptual): The activity of thinking as such can never be translated into any tangible results.

Weight in the world of things. Hands shape wood, stone, fiber, pigment. Or not stone, but something like it. Wood, or something that once was. Colours that bring news from upstream. Mix, grind, carve, pull, weave. Motions etch existence. In Matter of Fact, Whitehouse Gallery presents the work of Lola Daels, Céline Vahsen and Anna van der Ploeg in dialogue. Though distinctly physical, each artist’s practice contains something elusive, an underpinning that cannot be reduced to the tangible. These three Brussels-based artists inhabit a threshold where matter itself is evident in a way that opens up to all that is beyond matter.