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all images courtesy of the artist and Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels

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You enter a room. The scene is somehow familiar. There appears to be a couch and a series of wall works. The couch is occupied by empty oyster shells recovered by a glossy transparent pvc. The forms on the wall are reduced and minimal yet aerial.  They have been hung higher than usual. You understand that it would be perfect to sit on the sofa to see them. But you can’t.

Although this installation is loaded with antisocial conditions, Lounge Elopes by DOMINIC SAMSWORTH is only complete when and until the viewer stepped into the room. Only at this moment could the installation be complete as a picture, which is that of a person looking into a space both abstract and figurative. Thanks to an open press release, the exhibition tells us nothing about anywhere else except where the viewer is. There’s no story other than the one he is in, nowhere else to go.

Lounge Elopes by DOMINIC SAMSWORTH is on view at Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels until June 4, 2016.