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Fabian Aerts

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The LOST PLACES series explores imaginary territories that appear both familiar and impossible. The series unfolds like a collection of unexplored worlds, where landscapes seem to carry the memory of places we might have known, while quietly resisting recognition. Natural forms, strange architectures and unstable perspectives create a sense of attraction and unease, as if each environment belonged to a reality slightly adjacent to our own. LOST PLACES evokes the fragile moment when a place feels almost real, yet fundamentally unreachable.

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Fabian Aerts

Belgium

Fabian Aerts is a Belgian digital artist and director whose work explores the tension between living forms, human presence, and impossible landscapes. Through moving images and sculptural visual worlds, he creates fragile realities where bodies, ecosystems, and matter seem to mutate, merge, or drift away from their original form. His practice often questions identity, transformation, memory, and desire, using human figures, organic structures, and speculative environments as vessels for emotional and psychological states. Between beauty and unease, intimacy and strangeness, his works invite viewers to contemplate worlds that feel at once familiar, unstable, and profoundly other.

Working as an independent creative director, motion designer, and 3D artist, Aerts has collaborated with studios including Elastic, MediaMonks, Trizz, Laundry, Psyop, Unit Motion, Helmut, and Tendril, on projects for clients such as Adobe, Netflix, Xbox, Dell, Biotherm, Olay, AMC, Longines, and Experian. His work has been featured on Motionographer, Behance, Stash, and Vimeo, among others.

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