Roman Couchard
Visual artist – Born in 1994 in Liège, Belgium
Roman Couchard explores the memory of forgotten places through a practice rooted in engraving, material, and imprinting. His work draws on Belgian industrial heritage, particularly the abandoned ruins of the Liège region, which he reinterprets.
At the heart of his approach: a tension between disappearance and presence. On plexiglass sheets—an industrial material that has become a sensitive surface—he prints the traces of erased buildings and collapsed landscapes. Each work becomes a silent cartography of what once was.
His practice is part of a discreet ecology, far from the spectacular. By repurposing materials considered premature waste, he questions sustainability, material memory, and slow transformation. Here, the artistic gesture joins a broader commitment: to preserve, transmit, and resist erasure.
Through his monumental engravings, Roman Couchard questions our relationship to time, history, and vestiges. His works confront us with our own vulnerability—and with what, despite everything, persists.