°1991 in Machelen, Belgium.
The work of Simon Verheylesonne explores the threshold between image and matter. His art does not seek to explain the world but to touch its traces and remnants. Each object seems to have lived a life before being seen. Materials such as dust, wood, and pigment are treated as witnesses of time and transformation, giving his works a sense of being both ancient and new.
His way of looking is both inquisitive and devotional. Observation becomes an act of care and attention in which the boundary between viewer and object begins to fade. What appears is a fragile moment of emergence, where matter turns into image and image returns to matter.
Verheylesonne’s installations radiate a quiet precision. They resemble altars without religion and systems without certainty. There is a constant tension between order and erosion, between preservation and change. Light plays a central role in this dynamic; it reveals and conceals at the same time.
His art calls for slowness and attentiveness rather than immediate consumption. What it offers is not explanation but resonance, the sense that meaning arises through care, and that even within the ordinary, wonder still endures. Each work becomes a threshold between matter and meaning, where attention itself becomes a form of belief.
