Sébastien Staels

Sébastien invents hybrid characters composed of organic shapes, which certain features come from comic books and animation. These arrangements of shapes give life to surreal corporealities revealing anthropomorphic landscapes. In his recent works, he connects gear-shaped objects, evoking the biomimetic principles, with inert figures where time seems suspended. His images are like portals to a changing and unstable ecology where organic and technological matter mix and interact. Paintings can evoke the hostile effects of our carelessness towards our environment while avoiding adopting a moralistic tone. The idea would be to suggest the possibilities of ecological recovery or, more innocently, the capacity of nature to adapt positively.