(*1988, BE)
MASS II, 2020
170 × 119 × 60 cm
Collection Tanguy & Bieke Van Quickenborne

MASS III, 2020
235.5 × 63 × 103 cm
Collection Luc & Carine Haenen-Van Aelst 

MASS VI, 2022
175 × 236 × 60 cm

MASS VIII, 2022
175 × 189 × 60 cm

MASS IX, 2022
175 × 104 × 20 cm

Painted aluminium and steel

Drawing on the history of design, painting, or architecture, Charlotte vander Borght constantly questions and reinterprets the materials and structures belonging to the realm of industrial production. Acutely aware of programmed obsolescence and the ever-accelerating exchange of goods, services, and data, vander Borght aims to shine a new light on “everyday objects”. The series entitled MASS brings together sculptures that are physically impressive yet light in their materiality. They were produced from boards of Dibond made in the 1970’s, and recovered from a Paris modernist building. Hovering between abstraction and figuration, Charlotte vander Borght has repurposed, reshaped and painted these initially industrial panels in order to elicit their emotional power, to expose the affective and collective memory that is latent in materials.

With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles