BASE-ALPHA GALLERY

SIMON DEMEUTER- A GESTURE FOR TOMORROW

18.10 – 15.11.2025

If our civilization were to disappear, what would remain of us? Like the frescoes of Pompeii,
rediscovered centuries later, these works would be fragments of a vanished world, traces
of forgotten loves, censored and erased from collective memory.

Aesthetically, these works borrow from the style of damaged frescoes. Parts of the bodies,
faces, hands, seem to have vanished, worn away by time. And yet, traces of those loves
endure. You can feel them in the gestures, in the fragments. I wanted to imagine a lost world
in which these fragments of love stories had been buried, forgotten, and then rediscovered.

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