Kris Meeusen presents Swimmers

New generative works exploring motion, rhythm, and immersion.

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June 4, 2026 7:01am EDT

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EXPLORE SWIMMERS

Kris Meeusen presents Swimmers, an ongoing collection that distills one of the most fundamental human experiences into a language of shape, rhythm, and motion. A creative coder, designer, and founder of Lab101, Kris Meeusen has spent the last decade creating generative artworks and interactive installations that have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and institutions around the world. His practice combines curiosity, technology, and experimentation, exploring how movement, material, and interaction can be reduced to their essential forms. Through a distinctly minimalist visual language, Meeusen has developed a body of work that feels both playful and precise, balancing scientific observation with poetic abstraction.

In Swimmers, the human figure is stripped back to its most elemental qualities. Identity disappears, leaving only movement itself: bodies gliding through fields of colour, rhythms emerging from repetition, and forms dissolving into flow. Rather than depicting specific individuals, the works focus on the universal sensation of moving through water - the balance, resistance, weightlessness, and calm that accompany immersion. Through abstraction, Meeusen transforms swimming into a contemplative visual experience, revealing the fluid relationship between the body and its environment.

Drawing on his expertise in generative design and motion systems, Meeusen creates compositions that feel effortless while remaining highly considered. Shapes interact within carefully structured spaces, creating a sense of harmony between order and spontaneity. The result is a collection that rewards prolonged viewing, inviting the eye to follow subtle movements and evolving relationships across each work.