Invisible alliances, under the skin of reality 
mountaincutters 
2024
Bronze
Variable dimensions

Invisible alliances, under the skin of reality presents seven pairs of bronze hands that embody Depot Rato's vocation: to preserve, maintain and care for Mechelen's rich heritage collection. mountaincutters gave shape to these gestures of care, by observing the how the team of conservators, staff and volunteers handle, clean and restore objects. The bronze hands themselves were left open, allowing for fragments of our own memories to fill in the gaps, and to question what it is that we take care for.

mountaincutters is a French artist duo (°1990) from Brussels. Their multidisciplinary installations exist as temporary ecosystems in which energy is channelled between human, organic and inanimate entities. They are in a constant state of transformation and are subject to natural phenomena, symbolising how we are always together with the world and with others, thus being more than just ourselves.