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arnaudvanrafelghem

arnaudvanrafelghem@gmail.com
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@arnaudvanrafelghem

'Each architect automatically creates a permanent exhibition. Each building is a sculpture.’ —Juliaan Lampens

I am Arnaud, an artist-architect, working at the intersection of art, craft, architecture and pedagogy. As a constantly observing person, I want to grasp and understand the world first and foremost, while always keeping my attention on the bigger picture.

My studies and work experiences determine my field of work; being a human being in relation to the built and its environment. From this, the question of what is meaningful always arises for me. With a need for meaning, I want to contribute strategically to change, whereby I use the following personal statement:

'everything has been done by now, only not the combination of everything.'

Within my multidisciplinary artistic practice, I always start from observation combined with rhizomatic thinking. This activating practice is a re-action and repeatedly asks the question which worldview we want to support, nourish and colour. If we for instance are talking about value and materials, then the only added value in my worldview is reuse.

Result is expressed through architectural narratives, techniques, pedagogical co-creation models, tangible forms, perpetuating ways of working. This continuous process is an action of archiving and reincarnation and can, in turn, be used again for and by its target audience.

I offer fundamental artistic research, based on experience, always linked to artefacts that arise as crystallisations of these ongoing processes. I constantly reincarnate my work through residencies. The artist's daily process is the installation. I make aesthetics in everything.