“Annelies Slabbynck creates sculptural works that leave a deep impression in your mind. Her work is characterized by a simple, yet essential visual language, wherein she expresses universal themes such as life and death, sickness and health, growth and transformation processes. Slabbynck works with many forms of physicality, sometimes via familiar or antique materials, although often in fragmented and abstract manner. She includes clay and textiles in an original and experimental way, making good use of the rich symbolic value of these materials. Her work also triggers associations and personal interactions with everyday objects. It leads the viewer to reflect on sustainability, craftmanship and ritual character of objects. She seeks a return to older utensils from China and the Western popular culture, two cultures that she knows how to bring in synthesis in an interesting manner”
says Isabelle De Baets, ART,12.02.2009 .

Sun Hongbin also explores associations and family ties in his work. Over the years, his oeuvre has explored the quirks and idiosyncrasies which passed down through the generations of any family tree. He does this in a very unique style, clearly influenced by 18th and 19th century western oil paintings.

Courtesy of Front Line Contemporary