Felipe van Laar

Felipe van Laar (b. 1988) is a sculptor and visual artist living and working in the Utrecht, the Netherlands.

With architecture as his background, he creates large spatial installations and sculptures. A focus on the fragile side of architecture is at the heart of his practice.

His inspiration comes from buildings in which the tipping point between materiality and meaning is made tactile: buildings under construction or in decay, a half-finished structure or the back of a facade. Felipe is fascinated by the precise moments at which sacredness appears in architectural form. His works present themselves often as indefinite and unfinished, as snapshots of this search towards something higher, captured in time.

PADA is an Art Residency & Gallery based in a post-industrial site near Lisbon, Portugal.

Video by Apertura Studios.

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