Florine Verhallen
From a strong belief that discarded materials still hold value, Florine Verhallen (1992) transforms abandoned denim into tactile works that move between softness and structure, presence and memory. Through slow and attentive processes of deconstruction, folding and filling, the material is released from its original function and reconfigured as part of an ongoing exploration of how discarded matter can be rebuilt. Rather than imposing meaning, Florine’s practice opens up space for reflection. What was once functional, begins to exist differently: as surface, volume and quiet presence. In this shift, questions of value, care and attention begin to emerge. The familiar material becomes unfamiliar again, inviting a slower way of looking.


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H 42.0 x W 42.0 x D 2.5 cm
Catherine is named after the label that was found in the discarded jeans. This piece is part of the Soft Bodies series. In this series, discarded denim is given volume again. Not as clothing but as presence. The filled forms hold onto something of their past life: a softness that resists collapse, a quiet tension between yielding and holding. They seem to remember the body without depicting it.
These works are not about transformation as replacement, but as continuation. What was once functional becomes something slower, more introspective.The material gathers itself, thickens, and settles into new forms where absence is not emptiness, but a different kind of weight.
€ 850
H 120.0 x W 40.0 x D 5.0 cm
Rising field is the first piece of the Layerfield series. In this series, layers of worn denim build up into dense, compressed surface. Each fragment carries its own history, faded areas, worn edges, subtle shifts in tone, coming together into a material that read almost like sediment. Not lineair, but stacked.
The original garment dissolves, yet its presence persists in every layer. What emerges is not an image, but a condensation of use, repetition and touch. These works hold time physically, quietly insisting that what is discarded does not vanish, but gathers into form.
€ 3.750
H 81.5 x W 61.5 x D 3.5 cm
Jane. Named after the label that was found in the denim jeans. What has been worn, stretched, and shaped by the body does not disappear, it lingers. Jane is part of the Soft Bodies series, in which discarded denim is given volume again. Not as clothing but as presence. The filled forms hold onto something of their past life: a softness that resists collapse, a quiet tension between yielding and holding. They seem to remember the body without depicting it.
These works are not about transformation as replacement, but as continuation. What was once functional becomes something slower, more introspective.The material gathers itself, thickens, and settles into new forms where absence is not emptiness, but a different kind of weight.
€ 3.250
H 60.0 x W 45.0 x D 4.0 cm
Rowe is named after the label that was found in the discarded denim that it’s made of. This piece is part of the soft bodies series. In this series, discarded denim is given volume again. Not as clothing but as presence. The filled forms hold onto something of their past life: a softness that resists collapse, a quiet tension between yielding and holding. They seem to remember the body without depicting it. These works are not about transformation as replacement, but as continuation. What was once functional becomes something slower, more introspective.The material gathers itself, thickens, and settles into new forms where absence is not emptiness, but a different kind of weight.
€ 975
H 140.0 x W 60.0 x D 7.5 cm
Discarded denim, reshaped into reflection
€ 3.500
H 23.0 x W 23.0 x D 3.5 cm
Every garment begins with a thread. Where Threads Meet is a piece where denim is brought back to its point of origin: the thread. This piece is part of the Unraveled series. In this series the fabric of the denim is undone, pulled apart, and slowly reduced until its most elemental state remains. What once held shape, function, and memory is brought back to something quieter, looser, almost weightless.
This is not an act of destruction, but of return. A movement away from form, towards the beginning of the material itself. Threads gather, disperse, and reconfigure, no longer bound to the logic of the garment.
€ 450
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