“We accept the laws and rhetoric of others, who obliges me to listen to them and who defends me to work according

to my own ways, experience and usage?”

Michel de Montaigne

 I feel slightly uncomfortable, every time I'm asked to write a short text to accompany my work.

I do not want to guide the viewers experience of my work by means of a text, while on the surface that may

seem an obliging and helpful thing to do, the real result is the paralysis of the mind and the imagination.

A work of art demands that you surrender to the unknown, a leap beyond reason.

To open yourself up to something that you do not know and understand.

The supreme frontier of human freedom, may be the ability to accept that something exists beyond understanding,

that understanding is a machination of the mind and not a mirror of the world, that the world simply IS and

our consciousness a participant in its being and not a creator of it.

Robert Wagt studied at the ABK Minerva in Groningen (1986) and the HBK in Berlin.

He lives and works in Lille.

His work is represented in numerous public and private collections.