The poetry of Matter

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Matthieu Claus (°1977, Ghent) work originates from what remains: scrap, traces of use, and materials that have lost their original function. In these remnants, he explores how meaning can emerge from decay, time, and transformation.

By scraping, overpainting, and rearranging, he sets materials in motion between abstraction and recognition. His works do not refer to a direct representation of visible reality, but rather open up mental landscapes in which fragmentation, memory, and restoration coexist.

For Claus, transience is not an endpoint, but a starting point. In worn matter, he discovers a silent poetry. Abstraction arises not only from form and color, but from the space of tension between the work and the viewera space in which traces of time can acquire new meaning.