THE RED BOX
A collaboration by Olivia Lennon and Jan van Schaik
Photograph by Albert Comper
Act 1 (2024)
In Act 1 Lennon and van Schaik created a combined installation and performance piece which showed at L’Escaut in April 2024 (listed with the Art Brussels OFF Programme). This permanent installation is a series of built forms which remake, but invert, parts of the residency space within itself at full scale. Lennon and van Schaik directed, and performed, a performance of five costumed characters engaged in an improvisational response to the installation and its inverted elements.
Intermission (2024 – 2025)
Since April 2024, Lennon and van Schaik and L’Escaut have invited other artists to produce and install exhibitions of their own in response to their installation. These artists are: Leonor Gomez and Arthur Jules, Darren Roshier, Lisa Hoffmann, Marco Schröder, and Gérard Béthume.
Act 2 (2025)
In Act 2 Lennon and van Schaik have made a series of human-size maquettes. Through these figures the artists transform everyday building materials into sculptural reflections on spatial orientation, architectural form, and the personality and secret lives of objects.
The Artists
Olivia Lennon and Jan van Schaik are artists based in Melbourne Australia. Having previously exhibited in solo exhibitions, group shows, and biennales around the world, they have now joined forces to explore their interests in the absurd, the political, and the unknowable through the blended mediums of art, architecture, fashion, performance, and writing.
Further information
Olivia Lenon olivia-lennon.com
Jan van Schaik janvanschaik.com
L’Escaut escaut.org
Art Brussels artbrussels.com
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