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Nienke Baeckelandt (1989) focuses her research on matter, perception, and an intimate relationship with the object. Her site-specific installations and sculptures reveal themselves in a subtle way and often only become visible from specific viewpoints: hidden colors slowly emerge, transparent surfaces merge with the surrounding space, and colored shadows and reflections play with our perception. Everyday objects and words are fused, hardened, or distorted until they lose their original function.

Time appears as a subtle force that influences materials and forms. Baeckelandt’s approach is sensorially intimate, almost tangible: she invites the viewer to slow down and come closer. In her most recent work, she explores our relationship with nature and with our own body within a technological society. This is precisely what the ‘anthropocentric’ culture often fails to grasp: that our bodies, our sensory and material existence, our flesh, are not separate from the world, but are inseparably intertwined with it. She departs from shared surfaces and structures, creating a tension between the natural and the artificial.