These are the words of Geert Goiris, curator of the exhibition.

Pareidolia is the human ability to recognise patterns in haphazard data, an evolutionary mental trait that allows us to detect significance in random images or patterns. Once we go down that path, it is hard to turn back. What about the visual echo between a flock of birds and a spider’s web in the legs of a stool? By photographing pigeons in flight and using a pen to trace the individual birds, the artist tried to uncover a hidden order. He then plotted them as dots in a line drawing. Ornithomancy was once a common divination technique; finding meaning in the formation of a flock of birds has a long history. A second work in this room takes the form of a stool. A jagged, linear pattern of iron wire has been stretched between its legs. Is this a sketch for a spider’s web? Or an attempt to preserve this fragile structure by means of a drawing? An attempt to understand something by copying it? Or is it more a metaphorical addition to a piece of furniture, just as a draughtsperson might add a cobweb to an object to indicate it has fallen into oblivion?