Thursday, December 11, 2025

Flesh as Shelter * Berlinde De Bruyckere







Viscerally sculptural practice, distills the fragility of life into a material language of flesh, skin, and remnants. Her figures—often equine, wounded, and wrapped—confront us with the aftermath of humanity, where death is neither erased nor glorified but held, preserved, and made to speak in silence. Using wax, blankets, horse skin, and marble, she stages moments of suspended suffering and care. In her sculptural environments, there is no redemption, only the aching weight of transformation—sublime, unnameable, and painfully human.