Van Breda’s fascination for how we experience and engage with places becomes tangible in his textile works. Tapestries bend and fold in multiple ways, covering and uncovering abstract images that suggest an impressionistic experience. These images are constructed by hand directly working onto the canvas, leftover material from the textile industry, where threads and loose ends seem to reach out to the viewer and surrounding. The work of Van Breda brings together craft, the use of everyday objects and recuperation of waste material, which he gathers from the streets or through collaborations with various industries such as Limited Edition, Deltracon, Tasibel natural fibre flooring, Notebaert. More recently he collaborated with the international fashion brand G-STAR Raw for the project STREAMS.

The multiplicity of Van Breda’s work entails a study of the spatial narratives within the process of image making. Current research topics involve nature and landscape in the Anthropocene, society of the spectacle and the spatial qualities of images. Like an ethnographer he questions our environment, with a concern for the social and political conditions of places. Through historical research, site-specific works and material studies, physical places are transformed into ‘environments’, where new spatial narratives can deploy like a ‘speculative fabulation’. The use of fabulation as a way of fabrication brings him to the point of embodying ‘other’ and in doing so question the cultural significance of representation and its role in defining our belonging to the world. Through different media the artist seeks to manipulate spaces and invites us to reimagine our surrounding, with the clear intention to blur the sharpness of existing meanings and interpretations, in doing so free our mind to reach and invent new dimensions within the same physical appearance.