Hans Op de Beeck is known for his lifelike sculpted figures and immersive monochrome environments made from materials such as coated wood, polyester and pigmented plaster. Those carefully selected materials transform his sculptures and installations made in a uniform shade of grey, and they make the audience feel like the colour has absorbed the world around them.

His work, infused with a tragicomic consciousness of the fatality of life, brings his audience into a timeless universe at the crossroads between dreams and contemplative silences. Op de Beeck draws his inspiration from one of his art pieces that reflects his childhood: Blackberries.

Blackberries are traditionnaly associated with loss, sorrow and guilt; but the fruit provides a more positive personal reading for the artist. Blackberries bring on pure nostalgia that draws the artist back to his youth's hot summers and his parental home's stonewalled yard. Just like Proust's madeleine crystallizes the theory of memory, he refers to the fruit as a symbolic item which consumption opens the door onto his memorabilia of the past.

Hans Op de Beeck is known for his lifelike sculpted figures and immersive monochrome environments made from materials such as coated wood, polyester and pigmented plaster. Those carefully selected materials transform his sculptures and installations made in a uniform shade of grey, and they make the audience feel like the colour has absorbed the world around them.

His work, infused with a tragicomic consciousness of the fatality of life, brings his audience into a timeless universe at the crossroads between dreams and contemplative silences. Op de Beeck draws his inspiration from one of his art pieces that reflects his childhood: Blackberries.

Blackberries are traditionnaly associated with loss, sorrow and guilt; but the fruit provides a more positive personal reading for the artist. Blackberries bring on pure nostalgia that draws the artist back to his youth's hot summers and his parental home's stonewalled yard. Just like Proust's madeleine crystallizes the theory of memory, he refers to the fruit as a symbolic item which consumption opens the door onto his memorabilia of the past.