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 19 January until 9 March 2026
Xavier MARY (BE, 1982)
Biospheric City
Chrome gearboxes
Mechanical beauty.
Xavier Mary is developing a powerful sculptural oeuvre. Using industrial materials and used car parts, he creates monumental installations where the mechanical becomes a poetic language. His work questions notions of transformation, of cycles and of survival, all while revealing a form of sacredness born from the waste of over-consumption and our capitalist society.
Biospheric City clearly subscribes to this approach. The work is presented as an edifice composed of truck gearboxes, immediately imposing a mechanical rigour that unfolds in a sculptural language. The metal, polished and reworked by the artist’s hand, preserves the memory of industry and its processes. Every bolt, every cog, inscribes, in its frozen rotation, a story of factory work. Between architecture and relic, the work evokes a hybrid city, simultaneously ruined and organically alive, suggesting a possible rebirth after the collapse.