14/05/2026
Solo Show Marius Ritiu - My boat is bent
In collaboration with .antwerp
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Opening: Wednesday, May 13, from 6:00 PM
Public Exhibition: Thursday, May 14 through Sunday, May 17, from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM
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For Antwerp Art Weekend, My Boat is Bent, his stairway leads to heaven and I swing on meteoric dreams presents a speculative environment by Marius Ritiu, where gravity seems negotiable and matter remembers having been something else in a previous galaxy. At the center of the space stand three monumental sculptures in hand-hammered copper. They do not illustrate a story; they appear as if they have landed mid-sentence.
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The first sculpture resembles a vessel warped by time, its dented copper surface recording rhythmic labor. It feels less like a boat for water and more like a craft for navigating memory or doubt—both relic and prototype.
The second rises like an impossible stairway, suggesting ascension without structure. Its steps dissolve as they climb, turning solidity into vibration, as if transcendence were handmade.
The third arcs like a swing in orbit, suspended between motion and stillness. Its glowing copper evokes condensed sunlight, capturing a moment between play and catastrophe.
Together, the works create an unstable terrain where the absurd feels precise. Copper becomes a conductor of speculative energy, reflecting viewers as fleeting distortions.
The exhibition reads like future archaeology—objects from a civilization where poetry shaped engineering. Here, the absurd is structural, and sculpture becomes a means of leaving the ground without ever fully departing.
