Objects With Narratives - Solo show Manu Bano I Solo show Olivia Cognet
19/05/2026
SOLO SHOW MANU BANO - OBJ-05-06-07-08-09-13-14
4th of June, 18h00
Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels (Ground Floor)
Produced between Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, and Valle de Chalco, Estado de México, the pieces position Manuel’s work within a contemporary practice in which tradition operates as an active tool. In this context, copper ceases to be a support to become the essence of the project.
4th of June, 18h00
Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels (Ground Floor)
Objects With Narratives presents OBJ-05-06-07-08-09-13-14, the first solo exhibition of Valencian artist and designer Manuel Bañó, based in Mexico City. The exhibition is part of the OBJ series, an ongoing body of work composed of chronologically numbered objects that explore the relationship between material, form, and function.
The exhibition brings together a selection of pieces conceived from a single material: recycled copper. Rather than a finished collection of objects, the project is understood as an open investigation into the physical and expressive capacities of copper, pushed to its limits through artisanal processes.
Each piece results from a transformation: the copper is worked through fire and hammer, without industrial mediation. The hammer becomes both tool and language, and form emerges through the repetition of gestures that deform, tension, and stabilise the metal. In this process, idea, action, and material establish a direct and visible relationship.
The exhibition brings together a selection of pieces conceived from a single material: recycled copper. Rather than a finished collection of objects, the project is understood as an open investigation into the physical and expressive capacities of copper, pushed to its limits through artisanal processes.
Each piece results from a transformation: the copper is worked through fire and hammer, without industrial mediation. The hammer becomes both tool and language, and form emerges through the repetition of gestures that deform, tension, and stabilise the metal. In this process, idea, action, and material establish a direct and visible relationship.
Produced between Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, and Valle de Chalco, Estado de México, the pieces position Manuel’s work within a contemporary practice in which tradition operates as an active tool. In this context, copper ceases to be a support to become the essence of the project.
SOLO SHOW OLIVIA COGNET - SOFT GRAVITY HOLDS
4th of June, 18h00
Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels (2nd Floor)
“A gesture becomes a structure” is the starting point of Olivia Cognet’s exhibition, centered around a fountain. The fountain is not treated here as a symbol, but as something active, something that never fully settles. Water gathers for a moment, takes form, then immediately breaks apart again. It flows, spreads, disappears, and returns. There is no final image, only a continuous movement that keeps reshaping itself.
Made in black stoneware with fine chamotte, the fountain has a presence that feels almost geological. It sits somewhere between something ancient and something still alive. Water moves through it without hierarchy or direction, passing from one basin to another, overflowing and escaping the edges. Nothing is contained in a fixed way, everything remains in transition.
4th of June, 18h00
Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels (2nd Floor)
“A gesture becomes a structure” is the starting point of Olivia Cognet’s exhibition, centered around a fountain. The fountain is not treated here as a symbol, but as something active, something that never fully settles. Water gathers for a moment, takes form, then immediately breaks apart again. It flows, spreads, disappears, and returns. There is no final image, only a continuous movement that keeps reshaping itself.
Made in black stoneware with fine chamotte, the fountain has a presence that feels almost geological. It sits somewhere between something ancient and something still alive. Water moves through it without hierarchy or direction, passing from one basin to another, overflowing and escaping the edges. Nothing is contained in a fixed way, everything remains in transition.
From this point, the rest of the exhibition unfolds as a continuation of the same language. Tables, seats, lamps, and sculptural objects extend the logic of the fountain into other forms. The material seems to carry the same movement, as if it were still in the process of becoming, slowly stabilizing without ever becoming completely still.
In the end, the gesture briefly becomes structure, and the structure immediately begins to dissolve again, returning to movement to something that cannot be held in place.
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In the end, the gesture briefly becomes structure, and the structure immediately begins to dissolve again, returning to movement to something that cannot be held in place.
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