EXPO | Where the mesh folds: Anatomies that could be

Name: EXPO | Where the mesh folds: Anatomies that could be
Start: 2026-03-05T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Kavka Oudaan

Schedule

Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Kavka Oudaan | Antwerp, AN

OPENING 05.03.26 | 18:00-22:00
Jelle Ghysen
Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Costume Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, his practice explores the interplay between costume, performativity, and visual art. Alongside his academic work he created ‘GHYSEN’, a rave-wear brand influenced by the electronic dance scene and the communities that shape it. Described as “for the blur between bass and heartbeat,” the brand fuses energy, movement and identity into a distinct aesthetic rooted in collectivity and nightlife culture. Jelle’s current body of work takes the form of sculptural research, investigating how human bodies might evolve within speculative or alternate ecosystems. Using 3D scanning, digital sculpting, algorithmic processes, and 3D printing, he generates new forms derived from the human body. These sculptures intentionally retain traces of the digital tools and processes used in their creation. layer lines, distortions and algorithmic interventions remain visible, allowing the technological mediation to be read within the physical object. By treating the human body as an object in itself, detached from cultural, philosophical, or symbolic meaning, the work explores adaptation, mutation and transformation. Positioning the body as a site of experimentation shaped by imagined environments and non-human forces
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NVDP
NVDP (they/them) is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher working across digital and physical media. Using digital fabrication and collage, they create non-functional limbs and shapeshifting creatures that imagine queer and nonhuman bodies beyond utility, coherence, and binarism. As a genderqueer person shaped by institutional, medical, and technological systems, NVDP treats the body as unstable: something to be stitched, disassembled, and recoded. Their work foregrounds form over identity: twisted limbs, prosthetic growths, and visual glitches become tools of resistance. Influenced by queer, feminist and posthumanist theory, NVDP frames monstrosity as method—a way to build bodies that are misread, misformed, and materially excessive, exposing the fiction of bodily “wholeness.