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Laurent Veldekens at 10N Menorca, Act 1: Ashore Laurent Veldekens at 10N Menorca, Act 1: Ashore Laurent Veldekens at 10N Menorca, Act 1: Ashore Laurent Veldekens at 10N Menorca, Act 1: Ashore


Through a subtle combination of smoothly painted surfaces and rough acid burns revealing the canvas layers and collage, Laurent Veldekens’s work rejects classification. Playing with the imagery of collective fantasies - like this pool serie -, that is immediately challenged by raw elements of daily life such as newspaper or cut clothes, Laurent Veldekens conciliates dream and reality. He draws beauty out of studio waste, and remnants took away from other paintings, creating works that exist in the present moment, and allow for individual experiences of perception. Contre Plongée reflects the image’s fragility as a metaphor of collective ideals, but also invites us to approach painting through a non traditional spectrum.

Excerpt from Contre-plongée, 2021
Text by Florence Laprat
“Paintings as echoes of gambling games, newspaper parts and recovered images. Annihilation through factory work. Dialogue through negation. The paintings are windows of perception. The works represent a collective apnea. Let them live”





Overview of Works


Laurent VeldekensOlympic Pool 1, 2022Collage and painting on canvas200 x 140 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensOlympic Pool 2, 2022Collage and painting on canvas200 x 140 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensOlympic Pool 3, 2022Collage and painting on canvas200 x 140 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensThe Diver, 2022Collage and painting on canvas180 x 110 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensEmpty Resort, 2022Collage and painting on canvas180 x 110 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensScratch and Win, 2022Collage and painting on canvas180 x 110 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensLadbrokes, 2022Oil on canvas180 x 110 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensSportbetting, 2022Collage and oil on canvas180 x 110 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensSportingbet, 2022Collage and oil on canvas180 x 110 cm︎︎︎Inquire Laurent VeldekensUse the Stairs, 2022Collage and painting on canvas180 x 85 cm︎︎︎Inquire






Individual Works


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