Loan Verbanck (2000) engages with urban environments and personal history through an equally physical but materially distinct approach. Drawing from a background in graffiti and a long-standing connection to overlooked city spaces, Verbanck uses industrial materials, roofing felt, drywall, metal studs, to construct works that hover between painting and sculpture. His compositions are rough and resilient, embedded with emotional charge.

Rooted in cities like Brussels and New York, his practice explores themes of endurance, loss, and the quiet forms of strength found in everyday survival. The work is confrontational not in posture, but in its honesty — balancing destruction with construction, and impermanence with structure. These are not romanticized ruins, but lived-in surfaces, marked by use and time.