Trauma Fauna

 

Suffering is not romantic. Yet we have built monuments to it.

​

Trauma Fauna challenges the myth of the tortured genius. Inspired by the concept of post-traumatic growth, it examines how extreme adversity can fracture the self—not to erase the wound, but to reveal what can emerge from it.

​

Art becomes purge, reckoning, and a strange fairytale. Through painting, sculpture, video, and performance, the artists bring their struggles into the studio and forge them into objects.

​

Trauma is not noble. It is chaotic and uncontainable. Yet from its wreckage, a rare and unyielding beauty can grow.

​

This is not healing. This is survival with vision.

​

Antoine Goossens - Carlota Juan - Elio Ticca - Manu Engelen  - Mathias Vef -  Mathieu V. Staelens - Nathan French - Nina van Denbempt - Prigari

​

​

​