Terminal Offset (a priori)

Door Christophe Muylaert, 2026

50cm x 40cm

A metal handle is sealed inside a transparent epoxy block and placed on a wooden wall support. At first glance, it appears to be simply mounted to the wall. On closer inspection, it sits a few millimeters away from it, slightly shifted and not quite aligned with its own mounting. We immediately recognize it as a handle and assume it can be used, that it is attached to something, and that it is properly fixed in place. These are not conscious thoughts, but habits in how we look. Through small adjustments—the shift, the slight rotation, the gap from the wall, the lack of screws and the encapsulation in resin—those expectations begin to slip. The handle remains familiar, but something no longer adds up: how it is fixed, what it does, and what supports it become uncertain. In that sense, the work relates to the thinking of Immanuel Kant, who argued that our perception of reality is only possible through certain a priori structures—such as space, time, and causality—that shape how things can appear to us. The work makes visible how we understand things without noticing it. What usually feels obvious is here slowed down and made less certain.

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