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ArtEvol 2025 / Victor Guerin
Liminal , 2025 Neumünster Abbey’s paving stone, metal 31 × 85 × 85 cm
Victor Guerin is a Franco-British artist working across sculpture, installation and painting. Guerin holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (2024) and an MEng from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (2016). Exhibitions include the Royal Scottish Academy, Dalkeith Palace and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, with works held in public collections in China and private collections in the United Kingdom, Canada and France. Guerin’s practice investigates human intervention in natural systems, exploring intersections of technology and ecology as spaces of coexistence rather than opposition. With a background in engineering, Guerin integrates industrial fabrication, computer-assisted processes and traditional methods such as lost-wax casting. A material vocabulary, rooted in cycles of use and regeneration combines salvaged detritus with organic elements, emphasising transformation and resilience while foregrounding material agency. Substances such as oxidised metal, eroded stone and found fragments are allowed to generate meaning beyond direct intervention.
Artwork Introduction Liminal was conceived during Victor Guerin’s residency at Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg, using original paving stones reclaimed from the Abbey’s renovation. These surfaces, worn by footfall and time, embody tangible mass and layered histories. Elevated on industrial steel feet and spaced deliberately, the stones define voids that draw attention to absence as much as presence. The gaps, bare, open and expectant, suggest potential: will growth emerge where decay lingers? Liminal exists between erosion and regeneration, between architectural legacy and natural return. Within ArtEvol 2025 , Liminal acts as a threshold piece, marking when active emergence gives way to latent possibility. It reflects the exhibition’s themes: undefined positions, emergent languages and the tension between institutional histories and undefinable futures. The sculpture does not resolve. It poses an open‑ended question in alignment with ArtEvol ’s ethos: in the space between absence and presence, how does undiscovered potential assert itself? In its austere formal language, Liminal invites viewers to inhabit the space between silence and renewal, considering thresholds too often neglected.
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