Belgian artist Peter Buggenhout creates large-scale amorphous installation art from industrial materials, crafting them into animalistic sculptures that echo a fossil-like macabre and an eerie semblance of decay. His works appear stagnant, enveloped in dust and grime as though remnants of an apocalyptic event, like refuse from an abandoned building. There is interplay between exposure and concealment – one may wonder what is hidden beneath the layers of debris, yet a closer look may reveal further evidence of life amidst the complex structure.

The series is titled ‘The blind leading the blind’, and for A#3 Mirjam Devriendt has photographed #7 in the sequence. The huge mass is covered in tangled rope-like strands, industrial plastics and soil, seeming to have either grown out of the gallery floor overnight or perhaps landed from outerspace. The work is mysterious and open to much personal thought and discovery – for me to offer you any more interpretation would counteract its purpose, a situation of ‘the blind leading the blind’, as it were.

See below as Hans Thuys explores the Peter Buggenhout’s studio in Gent, Belgium.

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