With Daniel Boccato, Walker Evans, Myranda Gillies, Adrianna Glaviano, Micah Hesse, Shelby Jackson, Quincy Langford, Alexander Page, Marrow, Alicia Mersy, Jonathan Monk, Loup Sarion, Charlotte vander Borght.
24/04/26 – 15/05/26
Opening: Friday April 24 from 17 PM
Charlotte vander Borght and Loup Sarion are Lips, a coming together of two sculptors to make small, everyday objects. In 2024, Lips manifested as a fully functioning and much-visited bar, hosted within the walls of Galeria Mascota in Mexico City. The Lips Bar became a space to gather, drink, and encounter art, and one another, differently. Now, in April 2026, at the invitation of EDEN ISLAND, a new iteration of the Lips Bar will emerge, this time in Brussels. On the top floor of a temporarily vacant hôtel particulier in the Sablon, behind one of a kaleidoscope of doors, Lips again collapses fiction onto function. Conceived in the atmosphere of a warm, spring sunset and the yellow hues of tobacco-stained dive bars, this version features amber-toned glassware hand-blown in Mexico, leather stools crafted from goat skins, handmade coat-hooks, and ochre-plastered walls as its backdrop.
Led by two driving themes, ivresse and trompe-l’œil that meet under the sign of doubling, or double vision, vander Borght and Sarion have invited mostly New York-based artists, both living and dead. Their works, and their spirits, are brought into resonance with the intoxicating and sensual atmosphere of the Lips Bar.
