Passage
Z33, Hasselt

Part of the group show 'Modelling Life'

March 30th - August 24th 2025

In Passage, a new commission created for Z33, Christiane Blattmann has taken the simple form of a key as the basis for a new series of sculptures. Passing through the gallery, we encounter forms that move between model and architecture, entrypoint and obstacle.

Like a ‘rite of passage’ — a ritual defining the ending and beginning of a phase in life —Blattmann’s installation becomes an enactment of growing into the world. True to life, Passage does not present us with a clear linear progression, but a room full of stops and starts, a nonsequential and textured narrative flow. From architecture, to model, to symbol and back again.

— Kevin Gallagher