Arnaud Eubelen - Liège, Belgium, 1991 - works in the no man's land between sculpture and design, challenging our assumptions that lead from concepts to objects by reappropriating and re-evaluating the various industrial building stones of our world, displacing their use and context to highlight their intrinsic qualities and values. By rewiring and rewriting the urban context around us through different layers of materials with their own histories and lives, he sees the streets of the artificial world in which we live as hardware stores or a ‘material library’, as he puts it. By making supposedly everyday objects with his distinctive approach, by deliberately not respecting established codes about materials and their intended use, his practice leads to a body of work that belongs to the world of design. However, through the sculptural action of decomposing and reassembling salvaged materials, fragments, waste, rubble and scraps, he gives us a glimpse of the chaotic energy, the entropy, of the urban mutations that surround us. These objects retain the potential for use, but first and foremost an ephemeral state, a present time simply frozen by a few nuts and bolts, before its future dissolution.