06.03.25 – 28.03.25, Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei, Soraya Abdelhouaret, Crying could be a solvent

On Thursday 6th March at 18:00, the duo exhibition of Soraya Abdelhouaret and Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei titled Crying could be a solvent, opens at Het Paviljoen.

As the second part of the Eye becomes water programme, the exhibition seeks to explore waiting in relation to the practice of alchemy. Both artists, with their distinct visual languages, draw connections between material transformation and ideas of devotion and love. The exhibition space thus becomes a vessel where the objects are caught up in moments of transmutation, symbolic of the experience of longing.

Soraya Abdelhouaret (b.1998) lives and works between Paris and Brussels. She is a graduate of the Beaux-arts du Nord and the Beaux-arts de Paris. Her work is directly linked to the question of temporality, and her pieces almost always have a self-destructive or even corrosive dimension. Using low-cost scientific experiments, the artist sets up a bi-reality between mineral materials and disparate materials.

Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei (b.1994, Belgium/Iran) lives and works in Brussels. In her multimedia practice she explores the contrast between the fluidity and invasiveness of nature/humanity and the controlled and impersonal language of technology. An attraction to the irrational and emotional, took her from architecture to the autonomous visual arts.

Eye becomes water

Drawing from the history of Het Paviljoen, which served as the waiting room of the historic Bijloke hospital for pregnant patients, Eye becomes water is an exhibition and public programme that explores waiting not as a passive or neutral act, but as one that engages multiple temporalities, bodily experiences, and power dynamics.

Curated by Daphné Charitos, Natalija Gucheva, Abel Hartooni, Yasemin Köker, Temitayo Olalekan and Jean Watt.