WHITE CUBE
In perpetual movement, the Uhoda Collection is revealed, piece by piece, in a display window on the Rue St. Paul, in the heart of Liège.
© JL DERU
From 31 January until 17 March 2025
J'ai déclaré ma flamme, 2025
Weaving threads on frame
Artik, MK, 2001
Artik has set himself up in the White Cube to create a piece that represents relationships.
As he himself explains it:
‘J’ai déclaré ma flamme [translating to English as ‘I declared my love’] is a work created from threads, from my thread, from your threads, from their threads, a work that comes from all of us.
Something shared. The threads represent all the people around us, the people who are passing by, those who stay beside us for the length of our journey, all the people one meets, who one sees, the exchanges …"
To declare one’s love means openly and sincerely expressing one’s feelings to someone. It evokes the idea of awaking one’s love for another.
As always, Artik accompanies his piece with a poem:
I declared my love,
My threads, your knots,
Those who stay and those touch us,
Those who are passing by, all of us.
Some threads for love, others for hope,
Your threads and ours, others in you.
Declare one’s love, declare your love,
Between you and me, between us and them.
Because the most beautiful works that exist,
Are the ones you create from yourself.
Artik is a self-taught artist from North Macedonia (MK), who is based in Belgium. Inspired by memories and human emotions, he uses textures and words to tell intimate stories. His creations grant the viewer a free interpretation, allowing them to project their own experiences and feelings.