artist statement

Jeroen Teerlinck (b. 1990) is a self-taught artist working with sculptural panels and installations. His practice moves through grief, familial rupture, and human attachment, not as abstract concepts, but as what breaks before it speaks: physical, enduring, often raw.

He works with wax, natural resin, salvaged textiles, pigment and gauze. These materials are not illustrative. Torn, layered, stitched, wounded, his surfaces absorb more than image. They retain memory. They stain.

Each work becomes a body for what cannot be said. His pieces are made slowly, sometimes over weeks, sometimes longer. Their presence is deliberate, asking not to be seen, but endured. They breathe. They remain.

Unaffiliated with academic institutions, Teerlinck has shaped a visual language grounded in life, not theory, but precision, wounded, unspectacular, unafraid. His works do not seek approval. They linger. What remains is quiet. Unflinching.

In an age driven by speed, spectacle, and surface, Teerlinck’s work slows down time. It resists resolution. It offers no product, no comfort. Instead, it returns the viewer to something deeply human: the endurance of love through absence, the weight of memory in a world that forgets too quickly, the silent insistence that what breaks may still bind.

Where grief has been stripped of ritual and wounds are denied meaning, his work restores a space where what is fractured is allowed to remain present, unspoken, unhealed, unresolved.

Jeroen Teerlinck lives and works in Amsterdam. His debut solo exhibition opens in September in a former chapel, a quiet space for rupture and return.