“His new exhibition titled Dark Uncles goes beyond fashion and ascends to a world of slightly absurd yet beautifully hand-crafted art. Klaas Rommelaere, born 1986 in Roeselare and living in Antwerp, creates intricately embroidered tapestries and hand-stitched, free-standing sculptures to tell the tales of his lived experience. The artist graduated in 2013 from KASK Ghent from the fashion department and dedicates himself to textile sculpture.”
“Disentangling and exposing issues such as the entertainment business, advertisement, bigotry, racism, and mass consumerism, they explain through Herzog's text that “Everyone feels like this little penguin, running away from the crowds, seeking for their places of belonging, saying a general fuck you to the patterns and mechanisms that participate in numbing the seriousness of what is going on in the world today.”