Mute Witness #1

Peter Buggenhout works with the intention of complexifying and deepening different ideas, achieving bodies of work that express vital aspects of contemporary existence such as decadence, overaccumulation, uncertainty, destruction and ignorance, amongst others. The formal complexity of large-format structures and constructions, detached from any kind of representation, responds to an internal logic that is revealed through physical and direct interaction with the works in specific spaces.

What appears as an overwhelming chaos, is in reality the result of a meticulous, long and methodical process, which starts from the abject towards the aesthetic experience. The compact sculptures, often in overwhelming sizes, are manifested as ruins or as the archaeology of the protagonist feeling of current western cultures, acting as a counterproposal to the current tendencies of fast and easy consumption. His pieces are made from found and discarded objects or elements, previously insignificant or unstable as dust, debris or blood, generating a density of inaccessible information, or accessible information but only gradually or in part.