Tim Breukers |3

Large ceramic jars, placed at eye height on sturdy pedestals, feature single cut-out windows to reveal the theatrical scenes inside. Spherical enough to suggest enclosed worlds or bubbles, they could refer to staged indignation, fake news and post-truth politics. In contrast, Tim Breukers loosely glazed the outside of the jars to evoke scenes of nature. In a second work, a giant relief, he depicts the feet of a child, his own, whose insatiable eye for detail finds beauty between the pavement tiles. A coin, fake nails, moss, the helicopter seed from a maple tree – a short walk takes ages. But the world at their feet is carved up and unstable, held together by pieces of string and a frame that echoes the jar windows. Inside and out, truth and theatrics, life and work, art and politics all permeate and question each other in the carefully orchestrated playfulness of Breukers’ imagination.