Artists

Helmut Staellerts

Press release

How can one allow figures to dissolve or disappear? Is there a way to do so without erasing their presence? Stepping into a parallel world, not knowing where it leads; forms are suggested but never static. Always in metamorphosis, they move and breathe. The elusive shadow, as immaterial as light itself, signals a pulse. Embodying a state of disconnection, these figures emerge within a subconscious field, as if in a dream, intertwined in resonance. This movement of being is not functional or deployable; it is luminous, and at the same time, it withdraws from the light. It might seem frozen in our ‘techno-loneliness’ or ‘multitude’ , but the moment it is claimed or used, it unnoticedly fades away. What has happened in the past year? Wandering after wandering on the world stage, where, through a collective unaware blindness, we surrender it all to fascist leaders offering a free ticket to Nadaland; a realm ruled by the grotesque emptiness in lifeless structures, embedded in fears. Yet, beneath these hollow shells, that primacy remains untouched. Like the remnants of the first breath in the body, it endures. An infinite beginning.

Biography
Helmut Stallaerts was born in 1982 in Brussels (Belgium). He studied at the Université de Saint-Lukas in (Belgium) and graduated in 2004 from the Dusseldorf School of Fine Arts (Germany). His work has been exhibited at the CAB in Brussels (Belgium), the Musée Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (Belgium), Maison Rouge in Paris (France), Ibid Projects in London (UK) Projects in London (UK), Galerie Baronian in Brussels (Belgium), Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland) and the Mori Museum in Tokyo (Japan).