The artwork presents a serene, black-and-white landscape photograph featuring a dense, misty forest. The composition emphasizes the tall, slender trees that stretch upwards, creating a sense of depth and leading the viewer's gaze into the distance. The high-contrast monochrome palette and the use of natural light and shadow add a dreamlike, atmospheric quality to the scene. The work evokes a sense of solitude and contemplation, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in the tranquil, primordial environment. This photograph is likely intended to capture the artist's personal connection with the natural world and the introspective experience of exploring a wilderness setting. ...
Charlotte Vander Borght’s work—whether sculptural or photographic—centers on the material language of industry and architecture. She investigates how design functions not just aesthetically or practically, but ideologically, embedding cultural and political values into the spaces we inhabit and the objects that surround us. By reconfiguring elements drawn from urban infrastructure, particularly public seating and transit-related forms, Vander Borght blurs the line between function and fiction. She alters standardized components through processes of cutting, sanding, and recombining—transforming them into hybrid structures that hover between anthropomorphic and mechanical. These altered forms retain subtle traces of their origins: dents, joints, or ghosted outlines that suggest their previous lives while resisting complete recognition. Her practice invites a slower, more critical way of seeing. In emphasizing the overlooked and the utilitarian, Vander Borght prompts reflection on how bodies move through designed environments and how ideology is coded into material form. Her sculptures challenge conventions of form and utility, creating space for new ways of understanding architecture, infrastructure, and their intimate ties to power. ...
