THE TRIANGLE

The Antwerp Fashion Festival puts the spotlight on designers, fashion talents and brands with a series of events, shows and installations, that underline the contemporary position of Antwerp as one of the leading international fashion capitals. Opening the 2026 festival's edition, SUPERSAUCE was commissioned by Flanders District of Creativity and the City of Antwerp, to curate and create an installation that focuses on the inspiration, dreams and obsessions that fuel the creativity of 3 Belgian visionary designers: Walter Van Beirendonck, Jan-Jan Van Essche and Bertony da Silva (ARTE).

'The Triangle' is a commission by Flanders District of Creativity and the City of Antwerp.
With the support of Katoen Natie, Phoebus Foundation and Event Flanders.

Concept, Direction and Production by SUPERSAUCE

A hypothetical archeological find has just been freshly unveiled in the grand triangle-shaped hall at the historic Boerentoren (Farmers’ Tower), still in its bare bones before further construction, with some of its original brutalist design intact. Like a chamber frozen in time - a remarkable triangle-based grid on the ceiling still echoing its glorious past – THE TRIANGLE offers a close view inside the minds of these three outstanding creators, who belong to three different generations, yet all of them representative of the now and of the future of fashion design in Flanders.

A combination of immersive hyperreal films and physical objects, some loaned directly from the designers, some reinterpreted by SUPERSAUCE as a homage to them - created out of their very words and as if leaping out of their thoughts - the installation offers a trip of wonder and discovery into the personal and idiosyncratic facets of the creators’ minds.

The objects, dynamically distributed and inserted in nameless ad-hoc metallic grid-based vitrines, as if see-through protective cages, form a constellation of polyhedric enclosures, time-capsules of the creators’ minds, blending in with the existing design around them. Seen as a whole, the combination becomes a map made of fragments of multiple minds, to be deciphered in conversation with the also nameless and vibrant films on view – predominantly framed in richly colored and tactile close-ups, and bathed in textured sound design. All materials on show, as if just unearthed, shine a light on an exclusive view of the designers’ world, but at the expense of the viewer having to do the forensic work of connecting all the dots by themselves.The total experience enveloped in sensorial soundscapes that transcend space and time. A show of unexpected gems, an exploration of parts unknown and of specific passages of time, from today and into the future.

On one side of the triangle, placed among the hall’s columns, six large screens showing six films, two per creator: one for object-based content, the next one for conversations. In them, the designers muse in stream of consciousness non-linear style about the things that surround them in their lives and during the creative process, both, metaphysically -call it dreams, obsessions and beliefs - as well as materially –as in objects which they deem possess elevated meanings and emotional value, independently of their actual monetary worth.