Meet the artist

Dorsan Cousin

Dorsan Cousin is a Belgian artist born in 1996. A graduate of the École Supérieure des Arts Le 75 in Brussels (painting major), he enriched his artistic journey through an Erasmus exchange in Réunion Island. His work, decidedly multidisciplinary, unfolds through a fluid dialogue between sculpture and painting, where nature, memory, and obsession serve as underlying threads.

An instinctive practice, between material and landscape
Dorsan’s artistic universe is rooted in an intimate connection to nature, nurtured since childhood during stays at his grandfather’s house in the Ardennes. He embraces a sensitive and instinctive approach, often using found materials (wood, recovered objects) and paying close attention to organic and fragmented forms.

In his emblematic series Faces, he sculpts faces directly into wood — trunks, branches, driftwood — using chisels and gouges. These figures emerge as haunting, almost invasive presences. Neither masks nor ritual objects, they belong to no ethnographic tradition: they exist on their own, in their raw, instinctive, and direct form.

“The face is an obsession for me. It begins with quick sketches, then is carved straight into the wood.”

Dreamlike and surrealist painting
Alongside his sculptural work, Dorsan explores a dreamlike painting practice, inhabited by mental landscapes, surreal forests, floating forms, and fractured natural architectures. His work unfolds in a vibrant palette and a rich visual imagination, evoking major themes of Belgian surrealism: shifts in reality, spatial distortion, and the poetry of waking dreams.

His canvases seem to emerge from a parallel world, where nature no longer obeys the rules of reality but those of memory, emotion, or intuition. Blue trees, pink vegetation, fragmented territories — in his hands, nature becomes symbol, inner echo, and terrain for drifting.

His world, both quiet and expressive, strikes a singular balance between poetry, mystery, and strangeness.

A body of work shaped by obsession, freedom, and reinvention
Whether sculpting or painting, Dorsan Cousin seeks above all to express an inner vision—free from formal codes, shaped by recurring obsessions and subtle silences. His work reveals a world in constant transformation, suspended between raw materiality and symbolic flight.