The exhibition Modelling Life examines how models emerge in art and everyday life: as play-spaces to collectively explore forms, perspectives, and ideas. Just as a child builds with blocks or plays with a dollhouse, the process of modelling can become a way
of learning, discovering, or making anew. Through media such as drawing, sculpture, and photography the exhibition proposes ‘modelling’ as a dynamic process of reflection and experimentation. Architectural interventions by artists such as Christiane Blattmann or Kasper Bosmans place the viewer in the model in a tangible way.
Whether through architectural structures, social archetypes, or conceptual frameworks, models offer us ways to express new realities. At the same time, such models can limit or confine us – much like an adolescent might feel uncomfortable in a world that doesn’t seem to fit. Modelling Life traces the contours of our built environment. At the same time, it asks how our identities are constructed. Whether architectural or psychological, the exhibition explores the tools we use to orient ourselves in the world.
Through installations and conceptual works, the artists in the exhibition highlight the role of the model as both mirror and blueprint of collective aspirations. Modelling Life emphasises the process of making spaces that accommodate diverse bodies, experiences, and dreams, ultimately asking of us: can we create a built environment as rich and complex as life itself?
