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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Medusa is currently run by Tim Evers, Saskia Smith, Egon Moles Le Bailly & Lisa De Meyer. Anna De Wandeler is their legal advisor. Medusa was founded by Sacha Verleyen & Noa Verkeyn.

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The Ornamentum (2020) chair 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. Translating typical historical aesthetics connected to baroque and rococo into graphic icons performing as the framework of the chair and 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.