Luc Tuymans was the first artist to realize a work at Re:set Home in 2017. On the upper floor, overlooking the Haspengouw landscape, he created the floor painting De Swamp. The work is a translation of a painting on canvas into a monumental, spatial scale. The image unfolds as a marsh in which a figure appears to be trapped, oscillating between presence and disappearance.

The encounter between Gert Robijns and Luc Tuymans dates back to their time at Sint-Lucas Brussels, where Tuymans first encountered Robijns’s work. An intense and substantive dialogue emerged immediately. After Robijns graduated, Tuymans invited him to present his work in an international context. This invitation became a significant catalyst, offering Robijns the opportunity to position his practice internationally immediately after completing his studies.

Years later, it was Robijns who, through Re:set Home, invited his colleague Luc Tuymans to bring the work to life once again. The project was conceived as a temporary and fragile gesture. At the end of the process, Tuymans and Robijns jointly decided to burn the work. This decision caused considerable commotion in the surrounding area and raised fundamental questions: why would a masterpiece by Luc Tuymans be destroyed?