“The heart as a fading archive of colour”
Year: 2024
Medium: porcelain, underglaze, glaze
Dimensions: ± 500 x 400 cm (variable)
Exhibited at: de Oudheid in kleur, Gallo-Romeins Museum, Tongeren (16.04 – 31.08.2024)
Status: one-off installation in response to historical context
Medium: porcelain, underglaze, glaze
Dimensions: ± 500 x 400 cm (variable)
Exhibited at: de Oudheid in kleur, Gallo-Romeins Museum, Tongeren (16.04 – 31.08.2024)
Status: one-off installation in response to historical context
'Cor Chromaticum' is a large-scale ceramic installation inspired by the impermanence of colour in ancient sculpture. The work was created as part of the exhibition "De Oudheid in kleur", which showcased vivid reconstructions of classical statues based on archaeological pigment research.
In this work, the human heart becomes a symbolic core — intensely coloured, radiating outward into ever-paler tones. The vivid centre gradually dissolves into a surrounding mass of whiteness. This fading of colour represents both loss and memory: the passage of time, and what remains just beneath the surface.
The installation invites viewers to reflect on the emotional weight of colour and material. It draws a line between the fragility of history and the persistence of form. Between what was once vividly alive, and what now lingers in silence.
This installation was featured in "De oudheid in kleur", with coverage by the Gallo‑Romeins Museum (Gallo‑Romeins Museum, 2024).
