Medusa is a non-profit nomadic collective based in Brussels that aims to stimulate cultural exchanges and promote new emerging artists. Serving as a platform, Medusa’s main objective is to provide the means upon which new conceptions within the current cultural landscape can flourish. Medusa strongly believes that artistic innovations emerge through dialogue, cross-over and collaboration.

 
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The Future in a Fossil


08.12–15.01.23
group show 
at Medusa’s (former) space, Brussels

Barbara Leclercq
Daan Peeters
Isaac Lythgoe
Jonas Dehnen
Raphaëlle Bertran
Orson Oxo Van Beek & Quinten Mestdagh
Prune
Timo Correwyn
Tristan Gac

The exposition is a fossil—an imprint of a movement petrified by nature in which the works claim their space with deafening serenity like abandoned ruins in a landscape. Fossils are phenomenon linked to the past, but they equally function oxymoronic, immortalising phenomena from the future. Fossils contain a timelessness in which past and present are intercepted, halting the progression of linear chronology, whilst containing traces for times to come. The artworks in this exhibition thus reflect—in their own way—the fossils of the future.

The ‘Ornamentum’ chair (2020) belongs to a series of furniture by spatial designer Orson van Beek and fashion designer Quinten Mestdagh. Both fascinated by the ornamental and decorative nature of historical furniture, Orson and Quinten questioned why there is an absence of this in contemporary design.
    The ‘Ornamentum’ chair translates typical historical aesthetics connected to baroque and rococo into graphic icons performing as the framework of the chair. Saturated by the symbolic-natured decorative excess, ‘Ornamentum’ confuses the border between aesthetics and functionality to a point where the purpose of furniture becomes an ornament in itself.