STAGES#2 - Winju

iMAL & Kris Verdonck/A TWO DOGS COMPANY: 

Winju's work unfolds through installations, mechanisms and object-based environments that simulate function while disrupting coherence. Apparent logic is applied only to be displaced. The resulting forms operate as incomplete protocols, staging technical reliability as both affective fiction and theatrical gesture. Machines deliver just enough chaos to keep the illusion alive.

Through their sculptures and machines, Winju orchestrates a raw and free therapy, an exorcism of inner and outer tensions. Each piece becomes a distorting mirror of our fears and desires, revealing the invisible dysfunctions of our bodies and societies. By blending the industrial aesthetic of metal with medical experience, they expose what should heal but ends up constraining, what promises progress but generates alienation. Their absurd and brutal machines operate while malfunctioning, like an organism under tension. This is how MEDICAL BLACK METAL is born: a dive into the paradoxes of care and control, where suffering becomes catharsis, where order cracks open to better reveal its absurdity.

Their work has been exhibited internationally (iMAL, Le Botanique, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, A Two Dogs Company, Elgiz Museum, among others). In 2025–2026, they are developping new works in residency at iMAL and A Two Dogs Company.