Aleor inaugurates its new gallery space

32 rue Saint-Georges on the occasion of the exhibition SKIN.

Artists: Jessica Boubetra, Théophile de Bascher, Rosana Escobar, Max Funkat, Loumi le Floch’, Marlène Huissoud, Tony Jouanneau, Jean-Baptiste Lenglet, Karine Rougier, Diana Scherer, Catalina Swinburn

SKIN celebrates metamorphosis

ALEOR Craft and Biodesign opens its doors on rue Saint-Georges, in the heart of the Ixelles gallery district. This new address marks the beginning of a unique cycle, launched with an immersive scenography and a group show titled SKIN. It is an invitation to embrace a time of transformation, through emblematic works that oscillate between contemporary art and design, memory and metamorphosis.

Loumi le Floch’ explores the act of shedding — that fleeting moment when matter releases itself in order to be reborn. She transforms the space with a scenography composed of vegetal skins: aubergine residues become a new, sensitive, and aesthetic envelope.

Also featured are the dreamlike landscapes of Karine Rougier, painted on fragments of resin found at the bottom of the Mediterranean — a political gesture to revive industrial waste. The show includes sculptural objects by Jessica Boubetra and Jean-Baptiste Lenglet, created using 3D techniques and glazed with natural fragments of volcanic rock from Lanzarote, Canary Islands.

A dialogue unfolds with Tony Jouanneau’s textile works, dyed with sea urchin pigments using traditional shibori techniques; and a tribute to the living world through a historical piece by Marlène Huissoud, made in insect leather marquetry, in subtle conversation with the cultivated plant works of Diana Scherer, and Rosana Escobar (b. 1992), a Colombian designer and artisan who works with raw agave fiber in an almost animistic approach. Her piece — a woven spine — embodies the living memory of gestures passed down through this endemic Latin American plant.

Lastly, Max Funkat (b. 1991), a Berlin-based designer, presents a cabinet covered in ashes — symbolic and intimate — a refuge where the persistence of love and traces of memory linger beyond disappearance.

A radical and precise scenography that brings careful attention to gestures and natural or recycled resources — with which the participating artists and designers compose poetic, singular, and innovative narratives.