Grids of Life

For his first solo exhibition at Meessen, Brussels, Franck Scurti presents "Grids of Life," an exploration of elementary structures like the grid, interstitial space, and color. These forms, seemingly neutral, organize perception, movement, consumption, and memory. Scurti focuses on the grid as a symbol of modernity, urbanism, industrial architecture, and digital infrastructures, viewing it not as a purely geometric shape but as a device for control, separation, and rationalization, embodying industrial capitalist logic.

Scurti's grids are presented in a degraded state, bearing material history and fatigue. He intervenes in their gaps with malleable plasticine, repainted in subjective colors, reintroducing accident and life into the structure. The "Black Boxes" series, featuring sealed chocolate bar wrappers coated in asphalt, reflects on astrocapitalism and the commodification of resources. "Memory Map" reconstructs a planisphere from memory, highlighting the instability of mental representation and the subjective nature of territories and borders, with colors mirroring the painted plasticine in the grids.