Orrery (Loss) Sculpture, 2025. 130 cm × 130 cm × 232 cm cm.

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Orrery (Lust)’ and ‘Orrery (Loss)’ are two sculptures inspired by 18th-century mechanical planetariums, in which a set of spherical forms (planets and their moons) are assembled into a spatial, mechanically mobile entity. Here, the artist explores artistic variation by manipulating the scale of the models. Op de Beeck likes to stimulate the viewer’s imagination to generate free interpretations of time and space, and to think of our humble place in it as humans. Both works contains two different groups of ‘sculptural’ words. ‘Orrery Paradigm (Lust)’ contains words referring to sensuality and eroticism, while ‘Orrery Paradigm (Loss)’ offers a collection of words reflecting on notions such as loss and catharsis.