Rein Dufait

Rein Dufait (b. 1990, Ostend) works at the intersection of sculpture, painting, and drawing. His practice involves a wide range of materials — from cardboard, sand, wood, plastic, and plexiglass to acrylic resin, paint, and oil pastel. Each work emerges through a direct, intuitive dialogue with space, material, and moment.

Under the poetic titl, ginder de dingen, de dagen en de wolken, Dufait presents new work: several series shown to the public for the first time. In his distinctive intuitive style, he creates compositions that hover between reality and imagination.

The exhibition title serves as a poetic compass. ‘Ginder de dingen’ refers to the act of looking — to what presents itself and becomes visible. ‘De dagen’ introduces the element of time: the rhythm, the layering, the traces of process. And ‘de wolken’ evokes the fleeting, the intangible — the realm of imagination.

ginder de dingen, de dagen en de wolken invites a slower way of looking and a renewed appreciation — of materials, forms, time, and the everyday world around us.

The exhibition is accompanied by the new publication In de verte – de lucht, a collection of works from 2018 to 2025, published by MER. Books / Borgerhoff & Lamberigts.

• Curator: Patrick Ronse