


Marble sculpture, hand-carved, unique work.
Two bodies lie entwined along a single horizontal axis, limbs folding over and into one another in a recumbent embrace. Hand-carved in white marble and resting on a slender black stand, the work stretches low and long, a leg extending, a back curving, two figures dissolving where they touch until it is hard to say where one ends. Claessens reduces anatomy to its emotional essence, polishing the merged forms to a warm, skin-like sheen. The title names it exactly: a place of encounter. A unique work in which closeness itself becomes the subject, tenderness laid horizontal and made permanent.
Un lieu de rencontre, 2026
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Marble sculpture, hand-carved, unique work.
Two bodies lie entwined along a single horizontal axis, limbs folding over and into one another in a recumbent embrace. Hand-carved in white marble and resting on a slender black stand, the work stretches low and long, a leg extending, a back curving, two figures dissolving where they touch until it is hard to say where one ends. Claessens reduces anatomy to its emotional essence, polishing the merged forms to a warm, skin-like sheen. The title names it exactly: a place of encounter. A unique work in which closeness itself becomes the subject, tenderness laid horizontal and made permanent.
Belgium
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