Robin Bigret

Born and raised in the Minett, Robin Bigret’s two main interests are industrially scarred landscapes and the man-made objects resurfacing within them. He has shown across Luxembourg and the UK, and with his focus remaining mainly sculptural in nature, most of his time at Bridderhaus will be dedicated to producing a new body of work.

Within the framework of Bridderhaus’ origins, he will undertake textual and visual research to inform work relating to the surreal experience of temporal reality when encountering industrial objects returning from oblivion. Objects that have crossed the terra incognita’s threshold and are resurfacing bear marks of the tooth of time, and it is the personal significance these traces create that Robin leverages. By translating the forms of found fragments from one material to another, he will attempt to alleviate the condition they impose, which is to be reunited with their object of origin.

Mnemonic significance will also be placed in the context of the Bridderhaus’ location in Esch, allowing the personalised experiences of degraded landscapes and former industrial hubs to seep into his work. He will consider the sculptural diorama as a site of idylic dreaming and weighing it against fatalistic projection that seems to have befallen our current thinking about our environment. Through miniaturised landscapes, the viewer will be able to consider conflicting outlooks and outcomes for a site, creating a sort of temporal surrealism, perhaps the only form of environmental hope we can collectively afford given our climate’s current trajectory. This conflictual hopefulness aims at painting an outcome beyond prospective wars, climate disasters, and asset inequality.