SEPT Projection/Reflection
Exhibition in SEPT Brussels
Client: SEPT Brussels | Knokke
Exhibition: Projection / Reflection: Sebastiaan Knot
Location: SEPT Brussels
Creative & Botanical Design: Sculpt Studio
Photography: Alexey Shlyk
Duration: Two-month exhibition
For Projection / Reflection, a solo exhibition by Sebastiaan Knot at SEPT Brussels, Sculpt Studio created a botanical installation conceived as part of the exhibition itself.
Rather than producing a floral display refreshed throughout the exhibition, we developed a botanical sculpture engineered to remain in the gallery for the entire two-month run. The installation responded directly to the exhibition's central dialogue between clarity and distortion, permanence and illusion.
Sebastiaan's work possesses something quietly disarming. An illusion that feels both precise and infinite, drawing the viewer into a space where certainty gradually dissolves.
During the development of the installation, I found myself returning to the emotional contrast between clarity and distortion. It reminded me of reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a child: a world governed by its own internal logic, where familiar things become quietly unfamiliar.
The botanical work became the exhibition's physical counterpoint.
While Sebastiaan's works explore perception through light, reflection and graphic precision, the installation introduced matter that could be experienced differently: organic, tactile and unmistakably real.
Visitors could almost reach out and touch it.
That contrast became essential. The gallery remained visually restrained while the botanical sculpture grounded the space, allowing the surrounding artworks to continue playing with perception and ambiguity.
The result was not a decorative intervention but another layer of the exhibition's narrative: clarity against distortion, translated into plant form.
As Florian Araib, founder of SEPT, reflects in his interview with Artnet, the exhibition unfolds through multiple layers of perception. The botanical installation became part of that conversation, inviting visitors to move continually between what appears tangible and what remains uncertain.