Since graduating in 2018 from the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, Floris Van Look focused solely on figurative painting and managed to develop his own visual language. Antwerp. He usually lets his mind converse with the life he encounters on the streets, but the enforced seclusion of the corona period allowed him to look at his surroundings differently and to bring them – and the literature he immerses himself in – to life in his, now typical, oil and putty paintings. Built up of very thick layers, bordering sculptures, his works offer the viewer a very tactile, non-virtual, 3D experience evoking memories of old-fashioned, phased out ways of storytelling. The artist prefers to stick to old techniques and classical references but still succeeds wonderfully in inspiring our ‘hypermodern’ minds to fantasy.