In the heart of Brussels—a city where history collides with modernism, and architecture shifts from neoclassical rigidity to brutalist rhythm—Optic Drift unfolds as a visual experiment in movement, form, and the instability of perception.
This exhibition brings together three artists whose practices activate space through geometry and disruption. Optic Drift is not a homage to Op Art per se, but a reinterpretation of its core premise: that vision is not passive, and space is never still.
Stevens Dossou-Yovo manipulates steel into illusions of levitation and expansion. His wall-based sculptures, with their patinas and voids, feel like paused echoes of time—gestures frozen midair. They evoke the spirit of the city’s industrial legacy: hard materials made weightless through precision. His works challenge the viewer’s sense of solidity. What is fixed? What is floating?
Nicolas Dubreuille fractures color into optical events. His gradient-laced planes—cut like glass shards or digital glitches—play on the friction between flatness and depth. His sculptures, built from leftover forms, are fragments of something organic yet machined. A drift occurs between the structural and the emotional. What do we trust more—what we see, or how we see it?
Hans Schüle destabilizes mass itself. Steel, usually associated with permanence, becomes in his hands elastic, in tension, in question. His folded, exploded, or clustered forms turn the wall into a horizon line, as if the sculptures are crawling outward or retreating inward. They're not just objects; they’re spatial reactions—caught between collapse and emergence.
Together, these three artists create a sensory vibration—an optic drift—in which geometry doesn't merely build space but fractures it, stretches it, distorts it. The exhibition invites the viewer to become aware of how perception flickers between clarity and disorientation.
As urban dwellers constantly scanning, scrolling, and decoding digital space, we’re used to navigating distortion. This exhibition asks: What happens when material space begins to behave like a screen? When steel mimics weightlessness? When color acts like a signal?
In a city that itself feels in constant architectural and cultural drift, Optic Drift becomes both an exhibition and an experience—a place where structure unravels and new spatial truths can emerge.
Stevens Dossou-Yovo manipulates steel into illusions of levitation and expansion. His wall-based sculptures, with their patinas and voids, feel like paused echoes of time—gestures frozen midair. They evoke the spirit of the city’s industrial legacy: hard materials made weightless through precision. His works challenge the viewer’s sense of solidity. What is fixed? What is floating?
Nicolas Dubreuille fractures color into optical events. His gradient-laced planes—cut like glass shards or digital glitches—play on the friction between flatness and depth. His sculptures, built from leftover forms, are fragments of something organic yet machined. A drift occurs between the structural and the emotional. What do we trust more—what we see, or how we see it?
Hans Schüle destabilizes mass itself. Steel, usually associated with permanence, becomes in his hands elastic, in tension, in question. His folded, exploded, or clustered forms turn the wall into a horizon line, as if the sculptures are crawling outward or retreating inward. They're not just objects; they’re spatial reactions—caught between collapse and emergence.
Together, these three artists create a sensory vibration—an optic drift—in which geometry doesn't merely build space but fractures it, stretches it, distorts it. The exhibition invites the viewer to become aware of how perception flickers between clarity and disorientation.
As urban dwellers constantly scanning, scrolling, and decoding digital space, we’re used to navigating distortion. This exhibition asks: What happens when material space begins to behave like a screen? When steel mimics weightlessness? When color acts like a signal?
In a city that itself feels in constant architectural and cultural drift, Optic Drift becomes both an exhibition and an experience—a place where structure unravels and new spatial truths can emerge.
