URBAN ALCHEMY
 

Bram Braam

Exhibition duration
July 12 – August 23, 2024

With a keen eye for his immediate surroundings, the sculptor and former graffiti artist Bram Braam explores urban space and its transformation processes. The search for unadulterated traces in the urban environment - a terrain dominated by architecture - is the starting point for the artist's work.

In the studio, this exploration of the urban environment manifests itself in a sculptural and poetic representation of materiality and decay. By combining, rearranging, stacking and altering the relics he finds, Braam creates pictorial objects and sculptures that are reminiscent of their original surroundings, but which are nonetheless finally removed from the urban context and their original function through alienation and alteration. He carefully combines various aspects using different materials and assembles the individual fragments to create a new image of nature and the city. The interplay of different techniques and contrasting materials illustrates the interrelationship between man and his environment. Braam's works make it possible to reflect on urban change and open up new perspectives on familiar urban architecture. 

Jördis Tresse