Joris Van de Moortel works on a multidisciplinary oeuvre that explores the boundaries of art forms and challenges conventions. His chaotic aesthetic and deep-rooted creative urge form a unique universe that opens a critical dialogue on the complex relationships between nature, culture, art, religion and contemporary society.
The studio and exhibition space function as a modern alchemist’s laboratory, a place in which imagination and reason merge, and a mine from which the artist extracts materials and ideas. Van de Moortel transforms them into mystical feelings and thoughts, resulting in artworks that guide us in a rapidly changing world.
The artist explores the intricate and layered relationships between past, present and future, and how they shape us as we navigate between life and death, history and progress, futility and hope. In ‘Rebels and Devils, a song from the heart‘ we find new paintings, watercolors, tarot cards, film, performance, sound and music in a setting that testifies to a profound search for a new mythology and spirituality, a fresh paradigm to encompass reality between past and future.
