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Martin Schepkens and Manuel Leromain

Artist & Designer

We hope to live and share a collective experience: to observe, learn, and exchange. To step outside our usual frameworks and immerse ourselves in a context, a place, rhythms, and practices that have the power to transform us.

Manuel and Martin are visual artists and designers, based in Brussels.

Trained in textile design and fashion at ENSAV La Cambre, their work has been presented in Kyoto and at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Together, they explore the connections between memory, colour, and material.

Inspired by their travels and encounters with craftspeople-including Akiko Ishigaki in Japan and Hmong communities in northern Vietnam-they have developed a practice shaped by craftsmanship, transmission, and creation, where traditional knowledge and contemporary expression come together.