The Practice
Cédric Van Parys is an artist and researcher with a background in architecture. Through his practice, Atelier Cédric Van Parys—operating between Brussels (BE), Rotterdam (NL), and Sofia (BG)—he creates sculptural works, site-specific installations, photographic assemblages, and publications that explore the interplay between monuments, infrastructure, symbols, rituals, and aesthetics. By collecting various phenomena as individual elements and reassembling them in new ways, Van Parys questions traditional ideas of culture and nature.
This approach combines his academic background with an urgency for travel and adventure and a love for crafting raw matter. That is why he operates in different creative fields, from artist residencies in Shanghai and Sofia to research projects with municipalities and institutions, such as the MonoXylon with the city of Utrecht, the Atlas of Imagination with Meierijstad, and the recently concluded Garofalo Fellowship at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Drawing inspiration from diverse cultural contexts, history, and natural sciences, ancient archetypes merge with contemporary languages to foster curiosity about the world we have made and inhabit, and how this relates to the planet, the cosmos, and beyond.