Les filles du calvaire presents Levi van Veluw's first solo show, in which he stages his inner world in monumental installations as well as intimate sculptures.
For the exhibition We do not remember, Dutch artist Levi van Veluw transforms the gallery's display case into a work of art. He fills the space with 120 replicas of his own effigy. The heads arrangement is chaotic, as they crowd and clash against each other, offering a disturbing and alienating vision of the crowd.
In the center of the gallery, a 6-meter-high cylindrical object crosses both floors. The space becomes a prison, with no means of escape. On the walls of this room, countless shelves are saturated from top to bottom with hundreds of heads. Is this a warehouse, a factory? Or perhaps the inside of the artist's brain?
In addition to installations, van Veluw shows autobiographical sculptures, drawings and films inspired by his childhood memories. From the depths of his memory, the artist conjures up images that evoke universal emotions and challenge our human logic. Van Veluw plays with elements of order and chaos, questioning the viewer: between obsession with control and the search for infinity through the juxtaposition of harmonious lines and brutal breaks.
