Antwerp Public Art Collection / Kunst in de Stad

Kévin Bray’s hybrid sculptures, produced through 3D printing, translate figures that originate in digital space into tangible forms. These characters move between virtual and physical environments, carrying traces of both worlds. A movement, a still but still a movement. The works suggest that what appears static is in fact part of an ongoing circulation between screens, images, bodies and spaces.

In this way, the sculptures reflect the condition in which we live. Digital life is our reality but how do we deal with that? The works do not offer an answer but rather make visible how the digital and the physical are no longer separate domains. They exist simultaneously by shaping and informing one another.

Kévin Bray is a French interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam whose practice moves between digital environments and material production. His work examines how the visual languages of software, images and materials can intersect and transform each other, resulting in hybrid forms that exist across multiple realities.

Every evening from 21:00–22:00 a story will be told on the soccle. Every evening the story unfolds, gradually revealing another layer of the work and the questions it raises about presence, technology and perception.

Under the banner of Antwerp Public Art Collection (Kunst in de Stad), the Middelheim Museum manages, expands and researches the urban public art collection. In addition to this collection-driven work, the Antwerp Public Art Collection initiates temporary art projects and conducts research into the history and social significance of art in public space in Antwerp and beyond. The Antwerp Public Art Collection also offers advice and guidance on new art commissions to other municipal departments and public institutions.