Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens presents his first major solo exhibition in Paris. Internationally recognized and presented in many private and public collections, this multidisciplinary artist uses different and various materials without ever constraining himself technically.

"To watch out Fred Eerdekens’s work, it is like looking at a sleight of hands." He uses a large variety of different materials in his installation pieces. Most of them are taken from his daily life: metal strings, plant-covered installation, accumulation of clothing and synthetic clouds. He sculpts these materials to reveal on walls and floors their distorted shadow, a shadow that turns into words with the light. The shadow of an ordinary wire suspended in the air turns into a mysterious sentence: Seen not seen or Close your eyes. A pile of clothes – a priori trivial - projects on the ground the sentence Life itself is not enough.

All these words laid in a fragile way on walls form the poetic repertory of Fred Eerdekens. To the relationship between the materiality of the object and the immateriality of the shadow the artist adds a second level of meaning in which he questions the link between image and language.

The magic of Fred Eerdekens’s works carries the viewers into a world that is both ordinary and wonderful; a world where borders are not clear, a world that encourage the reflection but also and above all, dream.

Image: © Fred Eerdekens, Gallery Magda Danysz