Sven Boel

Sven Boel (Sint-Niklaas, 1985°)

I am a Belgian sculptor with prior training as a baker. I incorporate elements derived from language into colorful visual work. I make sculptures, interactive kinetic work and performances. The emphasis is on the analysis of movement within the dynamic possibilities of language. The titles of my works contain a linguistic dimension, a reference to the idea behind the work, because the construction of the word remains subjectively visual.

From childhood, language has been difficult for me to understand completely correctly. For example, when my mother got a "perm," it was a kind of haircut. When I heard that, I was very confused. Because I had learned that permanent is something that is there forever, and my mother's haircut had to be redone every few weeks. So that hairstyle is not permanent or permanent.

So the ambiguous nature of language gives me a lot of confusion. What people say, I usually see differently. Despite the fact that I have never been tested, I think that some form of dyslexia is partly at the root of my different approach to and view of language. I have come to embrace the difficulties of understanding language and to use its imperfections, its wonder and its complexity. I like to present my work as a visual interaction with which I like to provoke unexpected encounters and conversations.