-futility in three acts- by Sieglinde Van Damme
- Triton Museum of Art
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The Triton Museum of Art presents -futility in three acts- (August 29, 2026 - January 10, 2027) by Sieglinde Van Damme. Sieglinde Van Damme is a California-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is focused on abstraction as an open, undefined potential to new interpretations. Her work reflects on the depth of our individual pasts and the complex dynamics behind big life choices. Van Damme’s message for her art is: re-imagine what else is possible.
Born in Belgium, Sieglinde Van Damme moved to California in 1998. Van Damme graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) with a MS in Economics and a MFA from San Jose State University. Van Damme’s art and writings have been published in various catalogs and publications, both in the US and Europe. As an award-winning artist, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, including the US, Europe, Russia, India, and Japan. Van Damme’s art is also included in private and corporate collections around the globe, including Sotheby’s International Realty in France - Monaco.
Sieglinde Van Damme’s upcoming exhibit, -futility in three acts-, explores identity, memory, adaptation, and how we continue to negotiate who we are as we move through life. Having immigrated to the US from Belgium, Van Damme realized that adapting to new circumstances where our experiences change our identity asks us to consider what parts of us stay, evolve, or have to be let go as a result of our many choices. Structured in three movements: destruction, reconstruction, and re-imagination.
Van Damme wants us to utilize this exhibit to explore what happens when life changes course:
What remains?
What evolves?
How do we stay connected to who we are while allowing new possibilities to emerge?
At its core, this exhibit reflects a belief that “life itself is a creative act. That identity is not singular. And that we often have more freedom, possibility, and authorship in shaping our own lives than we realize,” Van Damme states. Van Damme’s exhibit comes forth to not only have viewers reflect on their own understanding of transformation as a concept, but what transformation means within the context of their own individual lives.
-futility in three acts- by Sieglinde Van Damme will be on view in the Triton Museum of Art’s Digital Gallery starting August 29th, 2026.
The exhibit will unfold in three parts, featuring:
-futility in three acts-: On view August 29th, 2026 - October 8th, 2026
V O I D: On view October 8th, 2026 - November 19th, 2026
Things change and then nothing happens: On view November 19th, 2026 - January 10th, 2027
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