17/06/2026
“A gesture becomes a structure” is the starting point of Olivia Cognet’s exhibition, centered around a fountain. The fountain is not treated here as a symbol, but as something active, something that never fully settles. Water gathers for a moment, takes form, then immediately breaks apart again. It flows, spreads, disappears, and returns. There is no final image, only a continuous movement that keeps reshaping itself.
Made in black stoneware with fine chamotte, the fountain has a presence that feels almost geological. It sits somewhere between something ancient and something still alive. Water moves through it without hierarchy or direction, passing from one basin to another, overflowing and escaping the edges. Nothing is contained in a fixed way, everything remains in transition.
From this point, the rest of the exhibition unfolds as a continuation of the same language. Tables, seats, lamps, and sculptural objects extend the logic of the fountain into other forms. The material seems to carry the same movement, as if it were still in the process of becoming, slowly stabilizing without ever becoming completely still.
In the end, the gesture briefly becomes structure, and the structure immediately begins to dissolve again, returning to movement to something that cannot be held in place.
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OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES
PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS
THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H
