An icon of French sculpture, Anita Molinero (Floirac, 1953) works exclusively with discarded man­u­fac­tured objects that she rescues and recycles. Often described as ​“punk”, her work is char­ac­terised by brutal, irre­versible gestures that assault the salvaged objects: heating, burning, twisting, slashing, compressing and bashing them, pushing the material to the very limits of form­less­ness. Her work is driven by the encounter between gesture and materiality. Between destruction and shaping, death and rebirth, Anita Molinero creates sculptures that are emblematic of a world dominated by over­pro­duc­tion and the depletion of natural resources. For her first major exhibition in Belgium, the artist has created a number of new works from materials collected in the region.