Lucas Sloot // recent works

Cluedo, 2023 This tower is all that's left from an old textile factory in Almelo. This tower was given by the employees to the employer by setting aside 5 cts per worker on a weeks salary. (Around 20 euros by todays standards) The towers proportions seem a little strange to me. The ornaments and clocks suggests a way taller tower. And than there is that hidden upper floor that gives space to something unknown... Better investigate. Let's go up. at Kunsttorentjes / Nieuwe Twentse Kunst

Cluedo, 2023 Pieces of a spiraling staircase and a box on the floor filled with coins of 5 cents.

Cluedo, 2023 Pieces of a spiraling staircase and a box on the floor filled with coins of 5 cents.

Das Wasser fließt der Grenze entlang, 2023
collaboration with Carel Lanters This statue was made in the 11th century and depicted Mary with child. In the 17th century the head of both Mary and the child were replaced by new heads. This time showing saint Machutus and a disabled child. This act became a centerpoint to the project Das Wasser fließt der Grenze entlang. In search of both physical borders and guidelines, aswell as mental differences between ourselves. During the Wildtuin at circa...dit I had the chance to work with Carel Lanters on a project with the focus on the process. The result was shown at the circa...dit exhibition space and consisted of several works about a beheaded saint, a river, borders and relics.

Das Wasser fließt der Grenze entlang, 2023
collaboration with Carel Lanters These images were made through a collaboration (Carel and myself) In one which one of us made the head, while the other made the body. This is a great example of how two makers can influence each other and steer into a direction where none of us would go on our own. During the Wildtuin at circa...dit I had the chance to work with Carel Lanters on a project with the focus on the process. The result was shown at the circa...dit exhibition space and consisted of several works about a beheaded saint, a river, borders and relics.

Das Wasser fließt der Grenze entlang, 2023
collaboration with Carel Lanters While walking through the borderregion of the Netherlands and Germany we found a tree trunk that stood out. It was cut down a while back and the remains were slowly rotting away. The result was a strange mix between a circular and rectangle form and we thought the trunk could add to the process. When we brought it to the studio and put it upside down we saw the statue of Machutus in it. To protect the remains of saints it was common to put these relics into holders. That's why we made a plaster relicholder that's opened up. During the Wildtuin at circa...dit I had the chance to work with Carel Lanters on a project with the focus on the process. The result was shown at the circa...dit exhibition space and consisted of several works about a beheaded saint, a river, borders and relics.

Das Wasser fließt der Grenze entlang, 2023
collaboration with Carel Lanters In Emmerich we saw a lot of original relic holders that in turn were also made in steps through time, just like Saint Machutus. A lot of the times the holders were made of glass that was from one era and then later the attachments or details were added that made it into a relic holder. During the Wildtuin at circa...dit I had the chance to work with Carel Lanters on a project with the focus on the process. The result was shown at the circa...dit exhibition space and consisted of several works about a beheaded saint, a river, borders and relics.

Das Wasser fließt der Grenze entlang, 2023
collaboration with Carel Lanters An overview of the exhibition. The presentation consisted of 3 sculptures, a video, projections a soundscape and a lot of smaller relic holders. During the Wildtuin at circa...dit I had the chance to work with Carel Lanters on a project with the focus on the process. The result was shown at the circa...dit exhibition space and consisted of several works about a beheaded saint, a river, borders and relics.

At Zelhem, 2022 What was left over from my experience of this place? A reconstruction by memory a few weeks after I've worked here.

Isn't this where we met?, 2022 A family of streetlights is traveling around. Here they found a place to rest and present themselves in a crowded, former jail. This inside place feels gloomy. They try to lighten it up, but it doesn't seem to be working...

At Bijlmer Bajes, 2022 What was left over from my experience of this place? A reconstruction by memory a few weeks after I've worked here.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022 An installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree. Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water, several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022
// Beech Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree. Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water, several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible. Beech bucks to show a lost branch that was broken off during heavy weather a year ago.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022
// Spruce Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree. Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water, several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible. Spruce is a supporting structure to lift a heavy branch of Lexi.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022
// Birch Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree. Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water, several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible. Birch is a cushion to soften the touch between Lexi and the spruce crane.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022
// Chestnut Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree. Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water, several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible. Chestnut is a prothesis for a long-lost branch that came off. It has a solarpanel that feeds the tree, just like organic leaves.

As long as it is in good intent, 2022
// Oak Part of an installation that boosts the appearance of Lexi the Chestnut tree. Lexi is one of two chestnut trees that were planted around 200 years ago on a private property midst of nature reserve de Veluwe. In the reserve the chestnut is a foreigner that made it's arrival by human hands. Now it's a healthy tree that can keep themselves healthy and happy. But still it receives human help in the form of extra water, several wooden aids and cleaning after to present Lexi in their best way possible. Oak is a fence that keeps humans from tripping over their roots.

Heel Krommetje, 2022 A mix of steel and wooden possibilities.

Fitting Profiles II, 2022

Aluminium, 2022 The materials that are commonly found in a hammer are switched back and forth and, in doing so, are resulting in a strange combination

Isn't this where we met?, 2022 A family of lanterns converging on a roundabout up north, bringing with them the question on how they came together. In this get-together the question they ask themselves can also be asked to you. Isn’t this where we met? Thanks Voorheen de Gemeente for giving me this opportunity

Douglas, 2022 A douglas copy of a tool that is mostly made with an steel head. The grain in the wood is not only visible in the colour of the wood, but is also physically enhanced in it's skin.

Spruce, 2022 A spruce copy of a tool that is mostly made with an steel head.

Fitting Profiles, 2022 In the last few years a couple of wooden skyscrapers were build around the world. Where as the conventional skyscrapers are mostly build with heaps of concrete and steel limbs or profiles, the new ones replaced those materials with potentially way eco-friendlier wood. Profiles are normally made of steel. The form allows the construction to be lighter while keeping most of it's strength. These are made of wood and are still somewhat metallike.

Half Krommetje, 2022 A mix of steel and wooden possibilities.

Isn't this where we met?, 2021 Wooden copies of several streetlights at Kunststroming2021 By making copies with a material I know with the tips of my fingers I get to know certain infrastructure-objects in a more touchy way. The copy is helping me to place certain objects in its network of being.

Follow the Line // Crossing the Field 2021 As presented during Festival de Oversteek. Special thanks to Derde Wal. Power lines that cross entire countries by cutting through the landscape.

Follow the Line, 2021 Presented during Prospects '21.
The pylon placed outside, but still connected to it's sibling inside. The pylon has a rainlike scent.
If it's raining the electric resistance of air drops so it is more likely that the electricity will jump from one wire to the other. This phenomenon is called a corona because of the shape the electricity makes when it escapes.

Crossing the Field, 2021 Presented during Prospects '21.
The pylon placed inside, but still connected to it's sibling outside. The pylon has a rainlike scent.
If it's raining the electric resistance of air drops so it is more likely that the electricity will jump from one wire to the other. This phenomenon is called a corona because of the shape the electricity makes when it escapes.

At circa...dit II, 2021 New projectspace of circa...dit.

At V.Nelle, 2021

Wet Wood, 2021 The rain wets the dry soil
Smells of wood and dirt
Outside is sooo fine

Driftwood, 2021 Flipflop drifting at sea

At home, 2021 The most viewed view of 2020. A place I worked in that's quite familiar to me.

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