Raquelle Verheyen is a Belgian mixed media artist. With a background from Sint-Lucas Antwerp and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, she has exhibited her work in both Antwerp and the Netherlands. Her practice revolves around themes of consumption, transport, object manipulation and the absurdity of our material/immaterial world.

Raquelle collects found objects and advertisements that once played a role in everyday life. Found objects are assembled into compositions where the line between reality and the 'consumer dream' blurs. Everything we produce and consume continues to exist, in one form or another. Inspired by advertisements, she reuse materials to question how products are marketed, consumed and forgotten. Her assemblages challenge the promises we attach to things and the speed at which they lose their meaning.

By reinterpreting advertisements and removing objects from their original context, raquelle constructs a new narrative around what we consider ‘waste’ or ‘valuable’. Her assemblages become layered accumulations, they symbolize the abundance of products and aim to create a sense of overwhelming excess. She doesn’t just want to make a straightforward critique of consumption but rather show how absurd and at the same time seductive the system is.

Found materials are piled up and rearranged into forward-moving compositions, balancing between use and absurdity. By putting everyday leftovers in motion, Raquelle questions what it means to carry a whole world of possessions, both material and immaterial. It is not only about possessions but also about the ways people assign new meanings to themselves and the objects around them. Inspired by De Certeau’s idea that individuals creatively reinterpret what the market offers, her sculptures explore how everyday materials can be transformed and redefined through use, context and personal agency.