Taking the overlooked storefront canopy as his subject, Egon Van Herreweghe recontextualizes a mundane piece of commercial architecture into a series of sculptural forms. Installed at Footnote Gallery in Ghent, these fabric-and-metal structures collapse the distance between street signage and fine art, asking viewers to look again at the visual systems that quietly define our cities.

Each piece references a distinct cultural archetype—the French bistro, the Italian gelateria, the Greek taverna, the Chinese takeaway—turning commercial clichés into objects of contemplation. By removing them from their functional context and mounting them on gallery walls, Van Herreweghe reveals the typographic and chromatic codes embedded in everyday environments, making visible the architecture of place and ident…