19 November – 20 December 2026
Timeframes
Painting without wielding a brush: Saar Scheerlings (Eindhoven, 1990) presents new large-scale works at gallery Fleur & Wouter, emerging from an intensive, patient process of folding fabric, binding, immersing in dye baths, ironing, and repeating.
It begins precise and rhythmic, but over time chance gains ground. The weave fractures: something stirs, opens up, or drifts by. Much like Saar’s other works - including her talisman sculptures - they do not merely demand a lot of time to create, they make time itself visible: in all its restlessness, stillness, wear, dullness, creativity, and possibility.
This presence lends the new works their palpable tension: on the one hand, an abstract estrangement devoid of explicit human markers - “Time is a moving image of eternity” as Plato wrote. The experience of time guides us toward the stillness of eternity.
On the other hand, every detail invites the viewer to wander, discover and imagine. Why stand still with time when you can also make it tangible? Isn’t time meant to create?
The exhibition Timeframes creates a warm, architectural and spatial experience. The monumental canvasses and standing sculptures work closely with the room’s natural light, creating an inviting and contemplative atmosphere. It is an open space full of quiet potential, inviting visitors to simply slow down, look around, and take their time.
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Saar Scheerlings
Born in Eindhoven in 1990, Saar Scheerlings embarked on her artistic journey after studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven and gaining experience as a chef and theater designer. Scheerlings mixes the disciplines of art, design and craft to find processes that give rise to new types and expressions. Her work includes large ceramic vessels that serve as painted maps, decanters that seem unwilling to pour, paintings that resemble fabrics and soft monumental sculptures. For her, a medium is not defined: she prefers to create her own playing field and associated rules. A great interest in daily life probably comes from her education in design, but she is not very interested in the way products are industrially designed, made and used. She prefers to see forms as intermediate phases of a creative process, a game, a tradition, a ritual, a culinary dish. It is the commitment to this process that gives objects meaning. Saars work is often triggered by the beauty and dedication of old materials like the antique linens she finds at garage sales in the French countryside where she lives. With a laborious process of sculpting, cutting, sewing and weaving she breathes new life into these materials, transforming them into her monumental talisman sculptures. Weaving is not only a technique for Saar, it is a metaphor for her entire work. She sees her oeuvre as an expanding structure. She not only creates work, she works on her own culture. The work of Saar Scheerlings has been shown in various international galleries and museums including CoBrA Museum, Design Museum Gent, Hanwha Galleria Seoul, Tripostal Lille, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Valerius Gallery, HAGD Contemporary, De Nederlandsche Bank, Garage Rotterdam and at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as a finalist for the prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
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