Céline De Schepper

Tomorrow (Saturday) 11am @fredferry_ A conversation about artists’books with @celine_de_schepper X @headnurse_amvk Dialy Dose X 33 Vrouwenreeksen {.WIT BOEK exhibition—FRED&FERRY X HOPPER&FUCHS} @_fredferry_ @hopperandfuchs @frederik_vergaert @brunodevos #curatingart #curatingartbooks #artistbook #artistbooks #artistsbooks #artistsbook #witboek #brunodevos #frederikvergaert #hopperandfuchs #fredferry

This Saturday, October 4th, is the finissage of “Witboek” at Fred&Ferry Gallery @_fredferry_ from 14:00 - 19:00.   A few notes on my Witboek “Litterature”: Over the summer @brunodevos handed me a small blank book (10,5 by 14,8cm), which was an invitation to participate in the exhibition, if I chose to accept it.   For weeks I wasn’t sure what this book could become. Until, a few weeks later, I stumbled upon “Pour un herbier” by Colette on a flea market in Normandy. It is a 1948 collection of essays in which she wrote portraits of flowers sent to her by a publisher. Each text becoming part of a personal herbarium of words. Reading it made me think of my own practice:  urban botany as poetry. Collecting fragments of daily life: traces of decay, poetic residues.   Litterature holds 54 post-its and 24 photos presented like glossy Panini stickers. It is accompanied by a foldable prie-dieu (a small cushion to protect the knees).

Daily Dose is part of Wit Boek, an exhibition project on the artist’s book at @_fredferry_ Gallery curated by @brunodevos & @frederik_vergaert . On view until the finissage on the 4th of October. Thank you Bruno for the invitation and happy to be 1 of the 50 artists participating! The magnificent Chambord staircase in the middle of the gallery is made by @adrientirtiaux . About Daily Dose: Each edition contains twenty used coffee capsules. Individually consumed, saved, cleaned, and encased. Each perforation is unique, visible only when paused, held, archived. The capsules rest in a coin box with drawer: a ready-made reliquary. This edition borrows the language of devotion. Each capsule becomes a sacred relic of a daily ritual. Each box is unique. Its rhythm follows the pace of life. No piece can exist unless it is consumed. By inserting these single-use objects into a frame of care, the work invites a new intimacy with the overlooked traces of consumer culture.

NEWS! Céline De Schepper will soon start a one-year research project at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp / @research_royalacademyantwerp Starting this September, she will work on ‘The (Never)-Ending Archive’ within the ArchiVolt research group. This project explores how we can assign emotional value to everyday disposable objects – items we would typically discard without a second thought. Through acts of collecting, archiving, and recontextualizing, these post-consumer objects are transformed into meaningful relics—talismanic artefacts that challenge our relationship with material culture. By bringing ritualistic care back into daily life, the project encourages a more mindful approach to consumption. ‘The (Never)-Ending Archive’ is envisioned as a living archive a space where objects, stories, and rituals continuously evolve. It invites us to reconsider everyday artifacts, not as fleeting remnants, but as cultural markers that shape a new collective memory. Céline De Schepper is an artist based in Brussels, working at the intersection of material culture, visual arts, and fashion. She holds an MA in Fashion Design from ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels. With a background in jewelry and design, her practice explores the tension between consumption, identity, and heritage by transforming everyday objects into talismanic artifacts. Through a research-driven and process-oriented approach, she dissects systems and recodes meanings, proposing new symbolic elements that frame and challenge our daily culture. She operates as a domestic anthropologist, a collector and curator of material culture, using experimental processes to question the symbolic value of objects in a world of mass consumption. @celine_de_schepper @research_royalacademyantwerp @royalacademyantwerp (image 1 & 2: Perforated Aluminium Foil - Traces of Domestic Rituals) #royalacademyantwerp #artandresearchantwerp #researchroyalacademyantwerp #artandresearch #archivolt #celinedeschepper #newresearchproject