'Fluid Stones Moving Entities, 2023'

'Wessel Verrijt (born 1992 in Lierop, NL) makes sculptures, architectural vehicles brought to life during performances like characters, or, as he prefers to describe them, like “hybrid entities”. Performers enter them and slowly and organically animate them across the room. These movements, and those of arms and legs jutting out, suggest human traits and emotion. They can be upset, in love, shy, tired, clumsy or lost; they wander around aimlessly or attempt to carry out a ritual together. The result is a game of approach and trying to find contact, between people and material, between performers and sculptures. Verrijt’s work originates in found materials. He reassembles collected pieces of wood, fabric, metal and cardboard into new shapes that still carry traces of their background and history. These traces are one factor in why he picks them, but he also considers their colour, shape and skin. Temporary by design, the sculptures all coalesce into an amalgam whose materials travel from sculpture to sculpture.' Every two years, the Foundation Kunst in De Heilige Driehoek organises a biennial of international stature. This special art event is situated in the area called De Heilige Driehoek, in Oosterhout, in the province of North Brabant. It is the only place in the Netherlands where a combination of three active monasteries can still be found. This unique area offers inspiration for modern and contemporary art. 25 artists are showing new and existing works, inspired by the unique location and its rich historical and spiritual traditions.