Edith Dekyndt & Richard Long
November 8 - January 10, 2026

Imagine Inscape, a work by Edith Dekyndt in collaboration with Unfold, entwines a subtle dialogue between material memory, technological speculation, and metaphysical inquiry. Starting from a fragment of fossilized wood, a tangible remnant of deep geological time, the artists embark on an exploration of the invisible: that which lies beyond immediate perception yet leaves its trace in matter. This fragment was digitized using 3D scanning technology, revealing its voids, absences, and eroded hollows. These gaps become the foundation for a speculative intervention: an AI-generated geometry fills them in, extending the original structure through a synthetic growth, a prosthetic implant produced via 3D printing. This gesture is not merely technical, it is deeply poetic. It proposes a continuity between fossilized past and imagined future, between ancient nature and emerging technology.

Presented here in the form of a woven wool tapestry, Imagine Inscape emerges in an atmospheric, almost spectral space. The work echoes early attempts to visualize unseen forces, particularly those of Hippolyte Baraduc, a physician-philosopher of the early 20th century.

Dekyndt’s work positions itself within this lineage of inquiry into the materiality of the immaterial, updating it through contemporary technologies of imaging, modeling, and AI generation.The piece also resonates within the broader context of industrial revolutions. While Baraduc worked during the Second Industrial Revolution, a time of profound scientific and spiritual upheaval, we now find ourselves in the midst of the Fourth: a revolution marked by the convergence of digital design and physical reality.

In this fusion of the virtual and the tangible, of algorithm and matter, Imagine Inscape will be shown in dialogue with works by Richard Long. Where Long collects natural materials, wood, stones, fragments, during his walks and arranges them on the ground in gestures of trace and journey, Dekyndt begins with a found fossil fragment, which she hybridizes through technological intervention. Long’s enduring practice ruptures time, space and distance. Materializing in laborious analogue, Long organizes a logic of fragments from the effects and fractures of time, exposing an elemental source code and earthly material memory. This dialogue reveals two complementary approaches: one grounded in earthly materiality and the repetition of bodily movement, the other oriented toward a post-natural speculation, where the imprint of time is extended through digital processes. Together, these works create a landscape where matter, spirit, and technology are intertwined.