group exhibition
LA COULEUR n'existerait pas!
Wittockiana Museum, Brussels, Belgium
March 22 - July 18 2027
Faded. Forgotten. Found — 2026
A utopian colour chart in two leporellos
16.5 × 22 × 2 cm (folded)
For about 7 years, every colour mixed got a small white sticker on the lid of its pot, with a swatch of the paint inside. When the pot was empty, the sticker came off and went into a notebook. Nobody asked for this archive. It grew because we didn’t want to lose the moments we spent with those colours.
719 swatches, each with one colour that once existed as paint and no longer does. It records no dates and no places. What remains is the colour itself, hand-painted on a small white sticker, with its texture and its small irregularities: a memory that has forgotten what it was meant to remember.
Sorting the swatches for the first time turned out to be an act of doubt. A beige with a lot of yellow in it went to the yellows, and a few minutes later its twin went the other way. Each swatch had to be told what it was, and not all of these verdicts would be the same tomorrow. The chart that results does not pretend otherwise. It is utopian in the way it admits that its order is one person’s decision, made sticker by sticker, in one moment.
Faded, Forgotten, Found is made of two leporellos, held together by cords and fully usable separately. The first runs from brown, red, orange and yellow through green to grey. The second runs from blue through purple and pink to beige and white. Unfolded, each strip is a ribbon where the colours flow into one another and the whole can be seen in a single glance. The back of each strip holds the colours that did not fit the front, for no better reason than that.
The covers hold no colours, only the outlines of swatches, drawn by hand in blue pen. Repeated and slightly different each time, they read more like handwriting than a grid.
What fades is the memory, what is forgotten is the day, and what is found is a sequence.