Stone is not passive. It contains the mark of past worlds; it speaks with lines, fossils, fractures. Can we tune into its language? Can we see not just a discarded slab, but a history of pressure and transformation, a potential collaborator in the creation of a more thoughtful and less extractive world?
Reniers insists on the continuous presence of rocks, and their ability to create new connections. Cuts, abandoned slabs, broken fragments: these are not waste, but elements in relation with the possibility of becoming. Using custom steel connectors, Reniers transforms these discarded stones into new configurations, modular architectures that reject permanence and insist on adaptability. A bench, a small table, a shelf-these objects are not simply furniture, but evidence of a different way of relating to materials, one that requires not domination but collaboration.
The world of consumption tells us that materials have a linear fate: extracted, shaped, used, discarded. Reniers’ practice breaks this illusion. Each piece in this collection is a counter-narrative, a rejection of waste, a celebration of stone’s ability to move, shift and reassemble. The steel connectors act not as constraints but as facilitators of kinship, allowing each oddly shaped and uniquely colored stone to find its place without being altered, without being forced into submission.
This project does not just create furniture, but reconfigures our relationships with materiality, value, and time itself. He insists: waste is a failure of imagination. Stone does not belong to us, but we can learn to be with it, to keep it company, to co-create instead of consume.