Fries Vansevenant

Fries Vansevenant builds portraits like puzzles, locking geometric shapes into a fixed portrait frame until a character emerges.The Ghent-based digital collage artist works in a contemporary Cubist idiom, constructing iconic faces from flat planes and angular fragments. Each composition begins as a problem to solve — how to suggest a profile, a gaze, a recognisable silhouette using only geometric abstraction. The constraint of the fixed ratio becomes the engine of the work, forcing economy and precision. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize The method crystallised with a portrait of The Joker, made after watching The Dark Knight for the thirty-fifth time. That piece became the foundation — flat 2D perspective, profile portraiture, and bold shape-building locked into place. “Through my work, I don’t take you back to the past; instead, I show how it still walks alongside us.” View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize From that single experiment, a visual language emerged: pop…