Art Brussels 2026

For Art Brussels 2026, Ruttkowski;68 presents an interplay between Carlotta Bailly-Borg (b. 1984 in Paris) and Sarah Caillard (b. 1988 in Paris) articulated through sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Their shared focus is the body as a mutable construct, shaped less by representation than by processes of inscription, transformation, and disappearance.

Caillard’s works introduce a spatial and material tension in which the body withdraws from visibility. Cast in concrete, aluminium, or composite materials, her figures oscillate between solidity and erosion, appearing as traces rather than stable forms. Pedestals become stages or supports that both present and resist the gaze, establishing a friction between industrial precision and fragile, gesture-driven surfaces.

Bailly-Borg approaches the body through fluidity and repetition. Her paintings and zinc plates unfold as sequences of intertwined figures, suspended in states of intimacy and distortion. Forms merge, double, and dissolve, moving across surfaces in a continuous circulation that resists fixed identity.

The shared space at Art Brussels brings these positions into a precise correspondence. Imprint and incision, accumulation and fragmentation, solidity and liquidity converge to propose the body as a site of passage—an unstable field where memory, desire, and material transformation remain in constant negotiation.

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