“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 the 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.