Peter Buggenhout

Even though Peter Buggenhout’s art has been created with abject material, the artwork itself cannot be called abject anymore. The artwork does not reject (something), but it does not create nostalgia or utopia either. Often the notion of dust is interpreted as a residue or by-product, which is at the same time a vital layer of our simultaneously condensed and elastic ‘imagined’ reality. Dust connects the danger and violence of repression and transformation in the art of Peter Buggenhout