Vertical Assembly (After Venus)

Door Christophe Muylaert, 2026

50cm x 40cm

This work consists of a vertical assembly of found and fabricated elements: a lollipop encapsulated in transparent resin, placed on a faux-silver shell-shaped napkin holder, resting on a thin pink resin plane, supported by a glass candleholder, and mounted on a minimal white 3D-printed base. The sculpture loosely references The Birth of Venus, but replaces mythological emergence with an artificial appearance. The shell, traditionally a symbol of origin and nature, appears here as a decorative and industrial object. The sea is reduced to a thin layer of pink resin. What emerges is not a goddess, but a preserved lollipop: desire held in suspension. The work does not communicate a fixed meaning, but stages a condition of suspended appearance. In this sense, it resonates with Jean Baudrillard’s notion of the precession of signs: signs that no longer refer to reality, but precede and replace it. The lollipop is no longer an object of consumption, but a sign of desire that is itself fixed and exhibited. Materials associated with consumption, decoration, and display are stacked into a fragile equilibrium. The white base does not function as a classical pedestal, but as a minimal support that intensifies the vertical tension. Due to its reduced scale, it almost disappears as a display element, shifting attention to the precariously stacked forms above. “Vertical Assembly (After Venus)” explores how images continue to circulate after their original meaning has dissolved. What remains is an assembly of forms, materials, and references—an appearance without origin, an echo of an image that once seemed self-evident.

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