realities are messy & in it i am: a rock. or a wave / / /// //
surface comma & 2 gallons of natural spring water

Image: Lotte Van den Audenaeren, autonomy comma a future / / // //// / // //// , later & beyond (2026).

RSVP Mandatory. Flanders House New York at The New York Times Building requires a government-issued ID on entry.

Please join us for a pop-up exhibition of Lotte Van den Audenaeren. Van den Audenaeren will present a selection from indigo series (2023), featuring posters made from raw denim. In a transformation process, the fabric is gradually altered, cut, and washed. Details, changes, and delicate cuttings become strikingly visible, revealing damage and breakages readable in delicate traces — notes on meticulous attention and care.

Like membranes, the denim surfaces encapsulate change, delineating the processes and presence of movement or force; as opposed to materials such as glass, which capture time in as a volume (mass from within) and in whose viscous phase it becomes possible to draw, move, and shape before it cools into something hard, solid, and irreversibly fragile. It is precisely this moment that is indicated and captured in O series (2017 – present) by minute O-shaped movements, resulting in an unfinished series of glass marks, singular representations of the momentary.

Program
Introduction and interview by Melinda Lang, Director of Programs and Exhibitions, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)

Works On View
indigo series:
a rock under water multiple rhythms, indigo series (2023)
focus on things that almost weren’t there, (2023)
no for an answer (2023)
ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok (2023)

O series:
o no (2026)
o indigo denouement (2026)

& comma anew (2026) print edition, 100 copies
2 gallons of natural spring water, (2026) water, containers

About the Artist
Lotte Van den Audenaeren makes works that illuminate the material dimensions of time as it takes shape in patches of natural sunlight, transient sounds, swathes of fluorescent fabric, or decaying natural objects. With an artistic practice that is open to the intentions & durations of her materials, she works with time as though it were a strip of celluloid film—parsing, fixing, & editing the fleeting moment through material processes such as bronze casting, glass blowing, ceramic firing, & photography. (Text by Isabelle Lynch)

This event is presented by Consulate General of Belgium, Flanders House New York, and Flux Factory.