my belongings

I’ve read that trauma is always in the present tense. The body marries the then with the now. Like radical politics, the body knows not gradation. There is safe and there is danger. There is inside and outside, friend and enemy, stay put or flee. I’m either on the verge of agoraphobia — I think — or a spiritual awakening.

When the Sick Rule the World, Dodie Bellamy

my belongings features a 3D printed clear resin model of Celine Aernoudt’s recollection of their parental home and garden. The house is represented by a cardboard box of antidepressants, by which they raise questions of heritage and inheritance, genealogy and nurture, accumulation and loss.

Accompanying text by Febe Lamiroy on www.celineaernoudt.com.

Celine Aernoudt, living and working in Brussels, has advanced a versatile body of work, including installations, performances, video, sculpture and text, in which they refer to (self-)consuming and self-erasing in relation to representational systems of today’s society. Who and how are “we” today? Drawing from personal iconography and popular culture, they jump between the position of the individual and the universal subject. They examine social space and its relationship to material vernaculars through the repositioning of familiar and standardised forms into installation and sculpture. Personal contradictions and anxiety-trimmed mediations underpin scenes that feel both witty as well as potentially unnerving.