Sent through assumed bodies: an exhibition interprets the virtualization of our reality through the dissolution of images – Juliet Art Magazine

In Paris, at the Parliament Gallery exhibition space, figures and images dissolve and fade without disappearing. Using oil paint and various other mediums, artist Helmut Stallaerts creates a visual representation that interprets our time. Space is something that disappears, it expands and thins, it is a variable. What remains is our presence, which endures even without the tangible reference of our figure, opening up to the most intimate and profound representation of ourselves.

Technology adapts, connects and manipulates humankind, creating a communicative structure that alienates us from the physical world. However, this does not necessarily exclude us from reality. What is created is, in fact, a situation alienated from the concrete world, a reality in which the physicality of the body vanishes and everything else remains. Through various mediums, in the exhibition Sent through assumed bodies, artist Helmut Stallaerts interprets this theme, attempting to capture on canvas the impalpability that characterizes our lives. In his works, colors and oil pastels blend with wax on classic or jute canvases. Through lengthy creative processes, the artist arrives at the representation of evanescence itself, as in the case of The Return (2025). In this large canvas, we can observe a vast scene animated by figures that come and go; these are blurred and…