HYPERSCULPTURE — the hyperreal edit

Performance

@Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, April/May 2026

On the occasion of the group show Je suis là, exploring the history of self-representation, Thomas Dupal recreates HYPERSCULPTURE (2021), a solo performance examining the role of images and words bornes from smartphones in the construction of dystopian masculine identities, in a sculptural staging conceived with and built by artist Tanguy Poujol.

At its centre, a sculptural object conceived as a modernist manmaxxing module, in echo to the exhibition space —formerly a modernist furniture wholesale company — designed to achieve ascension, the stated goal of looksmaxxing, an emerging current within the manosphere driving men toward unrealistic beauty ideals defined by pseudoscientific criteria and social media metrics.

Concept, text and performance : Thomas Dupal
Spatial design and external eye : Tanguy Poujol
Movement direction : Delphine Gaborit.