Eskapismus

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(Eskapismus: German – a psychological escape, a slipping out of reality. 

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Eskapismus is a space for visions that refuse the ordinary—creation as the most sacred form of escape. Each artist in the exhibition shapes a personal language through material, memory, and invention. What emerges is a private cosmology: surreal, symbolic, and charged with intent.

Here, escapism is not avoidance but confrontation. It is the truth beneath the surface, the sacred within the unexpected. It is the courage to create without compromise.

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“I don’t care about reality or the probability that something is true, only for its potential to stimulate the imagination.”

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Stijn de Pourc creates collisions of mortality, energy, and myth. Taxidermied lambs stagger on stilts like survivors of an ancient rite, while birdlike forms—built from bone, wire, and salvaged machinery—hover midair, caught between resurrection and collapse. Ducklings huddle together, fragile and close, like innocence on the verge of change. These installations feel like relics from a world trying to outgrow its own body—beautiful, brittle, and held in suspension.

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Mathieu V. Staelens paints skeletons draped in velvet and brocade—death dressed for theatre. His work meets mortality with ceremony and wit, turning decay into spectacle. The effect is both ornate and unflinching: an image of what endures when the body is gone but presence remains.

Yann Laissy paints himself as the clown, the lamb, and the solitary figure adrift in dreamlike colour. The palette is vivid, almost playful, but beneath it lies stillness and longing—characters caught between worlds, looking toward something just out of reach. His works turn solitude into image, transforming distance into a stage.

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