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Svelte Thys

Svelte Thys (°1998, Heist Goor, Belgium)

While pacing, I step on the earth, searching for sensory stimuli that cause thought to emerge. These pacing steps are recorded in sketchbooks, redrawn, conceived, and shaped. While walking I let myself be overwhelmed by everything that makes life visible, and while painting in my studio I try to understand the overwhelming. Therefore, the studio can be regarded as a place for the realization of an apotheosis between the polar bear on earth and the thinking that can be portrayed through painting. 

 

Selected Images

  1. Gloed

    2022

Exhibitions

  1. Svelte Thys Duivengeduld

    Brussels September 7 — October 25, 2025

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