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ALEX VALLE >> live and work in Brussels, Belgium

With his objects and installations, Alex Valle has embarked on a process of continuous interaction between science, art and spirituality infused with a cocktail of belief, desire, illusion and anxiety.

The child-like element embodied by the humble marble in his ‘bolas de gude’ works on two levels: scientific analysis in the more obvious symbolisation of living things as represented by cells and embryos and, at a more sublime level of consciousness, the impressions gained from life and deeper sensorial perception.

As hybrid products of memory and contemporary experience, these “glocal” marbles can be seen as the expression of both global and local experiences.

The objects with which the marbles interrelate are all things with a specific past and a particular energetic value destined in time to perish. In their new role, they acquire new life as a context for the marbles while, at the same time, the macroscopic representations of cells and embryos conveyed by the marbles become – inseparably? – bound to them in a ritualistic relationship.

The impact of the resultant symbiosis is disconcerting and highly effective in provoking the subjective involvement of the viewer.

Veerle Declercq – Veltem-Beisem