SOLO EXHIBITION 'COUNTERFORM'
A selection of Karen Verlinden’s ceramic works is recreated in marble, made possible by Van Den Weghe. In this new body of work, she explores the translation of form from clay to stone, engaging with a new material and mastering a different craft. Where ceramic is built up layer by layer, marble is revealed through removal. Addition becomes subtraction; fragility transforms into permanence.At the same time, Verlinden reflects on what remains after the act of making: the bases of her ceramic works and the traces left on cloth, marked by friction and fragments. These residues hold the memory of the creative process, revealing the marks that persist even as the work itself evolves. Together, the marble forms and the cloth traces explore presence and absence, material transformation, and what lingers beyond the finished object.
The exhibition brings together works in ceramic, stone, paper, and cloth. By presenting these different media side by side, the exhibition reveals the base, state and evolution of Verlinden’s practice. A dialogue unfolds between her materials and processes within the farmhouse of the historic Rococo castle Tanghof in Kontich.
