Fantômes de roches – Rock Ghosts
Balthazar Blumberg (born 1993, FR, lives and works in Brussels) is a visual artist. His research began in the field and with scientific collections. He is inspired by geological elements to create drawings and fictions in order to reveal the layers of memory that they crystallise.
Fantômes de roches - Rock Ghosts, Installation composed of an edition, drawings, glass engravings, slide projections & wooden modules (spruce) with samples from the geological collections of the RBINS, (Module design/scenography: Kieran Young), 2022.
With the support of WBI and ISELP
Fantômes de roches is an installation composed of drawings and stories created from the study of minerals. This modular scenography, inspired by museum devices, makes it possible to cross scientific and natural materials with an artistic and fictional practice in order to open up the interpretation of a rock specimen to the multiple narratives it may contain.
The artist is conducting research on the crossing points between drawing, photography and speculative narration by working on the mystery of stalagmitic concretions in the heart of limestone caves. This documented research conducted with the support of the geologist Sophie Verheyden is an opportunity to consider these concretions as an infinite number of slow and imperceptible narratives to compare human time with geological