Objects With Narratives presents Lost Highway - The Track, a new body of work by Lionel Jadot, atAegidiumin Brussels. For two nights only, this historic building opens its doors before its transformation begins.
Lost Highway - The Track
This work explores humanity’s imprint on the Earth through one of its most brutal instruments: the bulldozer track. A symbol of conquest and domination, it bears the marks of both progress and destruction, furrows of deforestation, trenches, torn landscapes. It embodies the power of the Anthropocene, that moment when humankind, master of its tools, also becomes responsible for the fate of the planet.
But after the labor, the track falls silent. Worn out, broken, discarded. Left behind at the edge of the world it helped transform, it becomes a relic of its time, a fragment of exhaustion.
Images by Stanislas Huaux
The artwork offers it redemption, a metamorphosis. From a machine of work, it becomes a bench, a lookout point, a place of observation. A space to sit, to contemplate the scars on the ground, to feel the shifting world, and to remain a witness.
To sit upon the very trace of human action is to confront what we shape, what we leave behind, and what we choose to pass on.
About The Artist
Lionel Jadot is not just a designer. He’s a disruptor, a builder of new worlds from the ruins of the old. For over three decades, he has collected the fragments, discarded objects, forgotten materials, gifted remnants of other lives, and used them to craft a practice that defies categories. Architect, artist, maker, provocateur. His work rejects mass production, marketing logic, and aesthetic obedience. Born into a lineage of craftsmanship but guided by instinct, Jadot doesn’t follow rules, because rules are part of the problem.
His creations are physical manifestos. Confrontations. Collages of memory, waste, and raw material honesty.