Verduyn presents a group exhibition exploring the fragile territory between memory and imagination. Across the exhibition, memory functions not as a permanent fixture but as a fluid and effervescent space. By allowing images to blend and enter into dialogue with one another, narratives remain ambiguous, while materials carry the human traces of movement, touch, and time. The exhibition reflects on the way memories persist, not as accurate and precise recreations, but as sensations: the relief of a cool breeze on a hot day, the scent of grass after rain, or the feeling of endless possibilities as summer draws to a close.

Al di là unfolds as a journey of reconnection with experiences that are deeply personal yet universally shared, bringing together works by Maeve van Klaveren (1977, The Netherlands) and Carmen Mardonez (1988, Chile), Ai Natori (Japan) Andreas Senoner (1982, Italy), Val Smets (1991, Luxembourg), Manon Soetens (1999, Belgium) and Grietje Troch (1977, Belgium).

Maeve van Klaveren’s figurative drawings strive to create an emotional space, incorporating ethereal and somewhat otherworldly elements while blending them with everyday moments. Any hard edges are softened through the use of pastel, colored pencil, watercolor, and charcoal, creating a dreamlike visual language. Similarly, Manon Soetens’ work is rooted in humanism and a longing for personal connection. Across various media, she places the emotional depth of human experience and the quiet beauty of the world at the center of her practice. Extending these shared concerns, Ai Natori creates atmospheric paintings built from layered shades of blue that often evoke water, light, and shifting emotional states.

Through experimental embroidery, textile sculptures, and installations, Carmen Mardonez transforms often-discarded fabrics and other domestic materials into powerful reflections on female identity, resistance, and liberation. Fellow sculptor Andreas Senoner uses wood as a receptacle for time and memory. Through the materiality of his sculptures, he seeks to establish a connection between the work and the viewer’s own memories.

Although working in vastly different media, Val Smets and Grietje Troch both explore themes of memory, transformation, and identity through figurative and symbolic forms. Troch’s emotionally charged sculptures focus on the fragility of human experience. Smets’ paintings, meanwhile, construct dreamlike landscapes and worlds inspired by mythology, storytelling, and hybrid beings, weaving together personal and collective narratives to blur the boundaries between reality and imagination.