1 February - 9 March 2025
Baudelostraat
High Frequency Interactions brings together works by Haseeb Ahmed, Sarah & Charles, Jens Kothe and Walter Wathieu, exploring the relationship between form, perception and the forces that shape our surroundings. Kothe's organic wall objects evoke the human body, while Wathieu's metal sculptures emerge through the pressure of water, shaped by gravity and chance. Sarah & Charles examine how narrative and illusion influence our perception of reality, while Ahmed investigates wind at the intersection of art and science. Together, their practices reveal the subtle interplay between the visible and the underlying processes, forces and ideas from which forms emerge.
HASEEB AHMED
SARAH & CHARLES
JENS KOTHE
WALTER WATHIEU
High Frequency Interactions
Artists
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Haseeb Ahmed (b. 1985) is an American artist who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He produces objects, installations, and films. His work is often collaborative and draws from the hard sciences, blending art and aeronautics, myth and technology, to create new narratives. Over the last 10 years Ahmed has structured his research-based artistic practice around fluid dynamics of wind and water. His focus is on what we can learn about our changing climates through the movements of the wind and the waters by what they carry, both physically and in terms of cultural associations throughout history. His work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp, BE) and has been exhibited internationally at the Göteborg Biennial (Göteborg, SE), Museum Bärengasse, (Zurich, CH), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, USA), De Appel (Amsterdam, NL), and the Frestas Triennial (Frestas, BR), amongst others.
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Collaborating since 2004, Belgian artists Sarah & Charles draw inspiration from the world of entertainment and more specifically, its invisible structures. Subjects and genres such as make-believe, simulacrum, the story within the story, cinematic experience, the suspension of disbelief and music are playfully and thoughtfully reviewed in their research and practice. They produce architectural interventions and stage designs combining video, photography, sculpture and installation techniques that communicate both artists’ interests.
Jens Kothe °1985, Lives and works in Bochum and Düsseldorf (DE) Jens Kothe presents tactile wall objects echoing the human body, the physical self. Take for instance the oval round cavities, like navels cut from the belly. As if they were enlarged body parts, Kothe’s objects are executed in muted, fleshy colours and shaped in slightly convex surfaces and soft curves begging to be touched. At the same time they often make you think of familiar elements of everyday life, such as benches. By making use of materials that evoke a certain intimacy, the artist welcomes the viewer into a private atmosphere. Although his works refer to the human body, it is never the human body as a whole. Instead it’s fragmented, degraded even, somehow trapped between its organic origins and the industrial world in which it is supposed to function, thus reflecting the struggle of man against the machine.
Walter Wathieu, Belgian artist born in Liège in 1992. His artistic production is characterized by a search for a form of organic spontaneity expressed through the tools and techniques used in the metallurgical, surveillance or videography industry. With a master’s degree in industrial design and several years of collaboration with leading Belgian artists, his career has led him to explore a variety of media, including video, algorithmic works, design and sculpture. At the heart of his approach lies a subtle balance between rigorous rigorous technical control and a deliberate acceptance of chance and accidents in the final result, revealing the chaotic yet harmonious essence of creation and its perception. In 2020, he initiated the Panamax project, a Liège-based artist run space based in Liège, dedicated to the promotion of contemporary and experimental practices. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Lille Grand Palais, FRAC de Nantes, Kunsthall Gent, Plus One Gallery, Avee Gallery, DMW Gallery and Kanal Centre Pompidou Brussels.
