Romain Zacchi lives and works in Brussels. A 2020 graduate of La Cambre, his practice explores the ambivalent relationship between humans and their material environment, through forms that both question and soothe.

He works primarily with steel, aluminum, and Belgian blue stone. In shaping these materials, he seeks less to impose a form than to allow the material to regain a kind of emptiness, an openness. The objects he creates or transforms seem to be in suspension, at a distance from any functionality. They carry within them a silent, almost mineral memory, and a dignity that precedes any form of exploitation.

His process is based on careful attention to simple gestures, slowness, and the precision of balance. The studio becomes a space of listening, where intuition precedes intention, and where thought emerges from direct contact with the material. These are modest forms, sometimes fragile, but charged with a discreet, almost ritual intensity.

He conceives his works as moments of hesitation between tool, sculpture, and relic. They seek neither to represent nor to impose a narrative, but rather to open a space — a porous place — where one may project imaginary uses, suspended between contemplation and perception.

OPEN STUDIO: Saturday, December 13, from 4–6 PM