Soft Evidence

Door Christophe Muylaert, 2026

50cm x 40cm

A domestic tool is immobilized: the handle of a cheese slicer is cast in epoxy and partially sunk into a wax-covered cube. The cube—3D printed and coated with paraffin mixed with human hair and oil paint—hovers between object and body, between food and residue. Its surface suggests fat, skin, and decay, yet remains structurally geometric, resisting full identification. The slicer implies an action—cutting, portioning, consumption—but that action is suspended. No slice is visible. No causal chain can be confirmed. The tool is present, yet functionally absent. The epoxy acts as both preservation and obstruction: a transparent barrier that fixes the object while preventing its use. Wax drips extend from the cube onto the plinth, collapsing the distinction between object and support. These flows suggest time, heat, and transformation, but without a clear origin. Did the cube melt? Did something external intervene? The work offers traces of an event without allowing its reconstruction. The piece operates in a space of false causality: it presents all the signs of an action while withholding its occurrence. In this sense, it aligns with a logic where effects appear to precede or exist without causes. The body—implied but never fully present—“remembers” through material residues, yet what it remembers cannot be verified.

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