Trust For this exhibition, the work “Trust” by last years’ Art Contest winners: Alexey Shlyk and Ben Van den Berghe will be presented. The photograph is part of the project “Private Eden”,  in which the artists explore the desire to escape reality into a constructed paradise.     For their installation at Art Brussels, the […]

Trust

For this exhibition, the work “Trust” by last years’ Art Contest winners: Alexey Shlyk and Ben Van den Berghe will be presented. The photograph is part of the project “Private Eden”,  in which the artists explore the desire to escape reality into a constructed paradise.

 

 

For their installation at Art Brussels, the artists were inspired by the life and work of Edward James (1917–1984), an eccentric British millionaire, collector and patron of many artists from the surrealist movement and a “surrealist by birth” himself. In 1947, while living in semi-exile, James acquired a coffee plantation in a subtropical rainforest in the mountains of Mexico and transformed it into Las Pozas: a home for exotic animals with thousands of orchids, waterfalls, pools and concrete structures spreading out over more than 40 ha of lush tropical jungle. Intrigued by Edward James’ surrealist Xanadu, the artists collectively explore the desire to escape reality into a constructed paradise. In a total installation with various elements such as sculpture, painting and photographic architecture, they transform the VIP Lounge into a temporary refuge.