♱ SAINT ♱

VAN BREEVOORT USES THE BODY AS A VISUAL LANGUAGE

@margrietvanbreevoort builds creatures. Silicone, polyurethane foam, epoxy. Months of mould-making, then she adds the eyes. Her sculptures sit at the border between human and animal, familiar and wrong. You look and something in you responds before you've decided what it is.

Concrete left as it is, just as it was poured. Steel left as it is, just as it was cut. Nothing covered in plaster, nothing embellished.

Brutalism applied this principle to buildings: it preserved the marks left by the formwork, treating the raw structure as a finished wall. Braun did the same with a record player in the late 1960s. A flat panel, a few knobs, nothing superfluous. We see this common thread in a stainless steel kitchen built as if it were meant to bear heavy loads, or in a speaker cabinet that seems to have been manufactured rather than styled.

A Mind brimming with creativity captured within lenses,

SAINT x Simon "ONIMS", read the interview on our website