
Lieve Hakkers, Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
“After the guests have left . . .” proposes a moment of domestic intimacy. A clever positioning of works in the gallery entrance immerses the viewer in a spatial pull between sculptural humor and painterly melancholy. Made of an upright rectangular slab of bronze mounted on a metal pedestal, Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen’s Doorman, 2022, takes the shape of an archetypal monument only to dismantle the trope. The artists draped a pair of white headphones over the statue’s “head,” threading their cable through a keyhole located at roughly navel height, and placed a pair of slippers and socks