Björn De Feyter - WHITE WALLS┃stilling bodies

27/07/2023 - 12/08/2023

Base-Alpha Gallery

Kattenberg 12, 2140 Antwerpen, Belgium

Björn De Feyter analyzes and feels, he feels and analyzes. An image emerges that gives direction to the process of feeling / analyzing, to the point that a definitive image emerges. Ratio and poetry merge with each other.

He looks for the subjects for his work in his immediate environment and tries to give it a more universal character. References to the world of the house painter, his father's profession, are frequent. The paint-stained black cloths that his father used to protect furniture and floors at the time are an inexhaustible source of inspiration.
All canvases were numbered, photographed and archived. The photos of the canvases form a reason for making new work. The cloths themselves are used to make installations that are reversible.

Male figures are portrayed in his blurry photos; 'Stand-stills' that demand attention, stimulate the imagination and then let go again. Moments of stillness are shown; images that in turn generate a moment of stillness in the viewer.

De Feyter tries to create a universe that doesn't leave the viewer unmoved, yet always in a subtle way, without wanting to shock. Many of his works are 'whitened' (with pastel, paint, filler, ...) in analogy with the way in which his father painted walls and ceilings for 40 years.