Wessel Verrijt

Wessel Verrijt creates sculptures that resemble tactile and vibrant anthropomorphic characters. The sculptures are slightly chaotic and carefully constructed, both robust and fragile.They are often made with found materials that are regularly discarded within different communities, towns and villages. While exhibited within art spaces, it is during performative moments, that these sculptures come to life. At times, performers enter them and move them through a space, a street or a film set. Within his practice, Wessel attempts to question the social norms around the interaction between body and matter. He is interested in the term “living matter” as a space where the body and inorganic matter merge into hybrid entities.

Wessel Verrijt graduated at St. Joost School of Art & Design in 2018. His work has been exhibited, amongst others, at Marres, Maastricht, Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam and The Greyspace in the Middle, The Hague.