Peter Buggenhout
(1963)
The Blind Leading The Blind #74, 2015
Waste material with household dust
135 x 230 x 90 cm
Buggenhout uses found and broken industrial detritus and abject materials that include horsehair, skin, blood, entrails and dust. The accumulation explores the boundaries of sculpture in both its form and permanence, appearing as contingent finds brought together in a chaotic mass which cannot be defined as either organic or manufactured. The Blind Leading The Blind evokes collapse and decay, traces of an unknowable catastrophe. Caught between construction and ruin, these dust-covered forms blur past and future, object and relic. Described as “archaeological finds of the future,” they invite reflection on impermanence and the fragile order of things.