Brussels gallery Objects with Narratives is presenting Lima Charlie, an exhibition by Austrian designer Laurids Gallée featuring a constellation of polished resin lights.

Called Lima Charlie in reference to the radio shorthand for "loud and clear", the show is anchored by five colourful, sculptural lamps arranged across the White Cube gallery at Objects with Narratives's expansive exhibition space in Brussels.

"The compositions are fairly simple geometric shapes, loosely inspired by infrastructure, antennas and satellite dishes," said Gallée, who is based in Rotterdam.

To create the pink, purple and orange lights, Gallée worked with resin – a material he has used to conceive past projects, including a translucent geometric console table and lamps with a liquid-like finish.

First, the designer used digital processes to determine each composition.

"Most of the early work happens in 3D, both on the computer and in VR," he told Dezeen.

Gallée then cast solid blocks of the material before colouring, cutting and sculpting them into shape. Each piece was meticulously sanded and polished to arrive at the desired smooth surface.

The designer said he develops the lighting's electronics and hardware alongside this process to ensure "the light behaves the way I want it to".

"Quite early on, I think about the electronic side of things, because that really drives a lot of decisions later," explained Gallée. "I do small 3D prints to check the scale and presence of the light, and from there, each piece slowly becomes more precise."

"The details take quite some time to tune properly," he added.

Four of the five lights hang suspended from custom ceiling anchors and wires made of steel. Transparent silicon electricity cables, also made bespoke for the project, connect them to slim aluminium switches. The fifth light is half wall-mounted with the same materials.

"I guess I would classify the lights as pendants and a sconce, but I didn't really create these pieces with an interior application in mind," explained Gallée, who said that Lima Charlie is his studio's largest light installation to date.

"What I'm interested in here is how light travels through a material and how it holds colour, how soft or sharp it becomes, how deep it feels," he said. "Resin just gives me a lot of control over that."

Alongside the lighting, Gallée is presenting a series of aluminium sculptures on plinths with disc-like protrusions informed by satellite dishes.

"Aluminium came in more naturally through the making process," explained the designer.

"It's useful as a heat sink, and has good mechanical properties, so we had already used it in the studio to make the [lighting's] machine parts."

"It felt like a natural counterpart – more rigid, more defined, sitting next to the softer behaviour of the resin," he added.

Objects with Narratives began as a nomadic gallery in 2022. In 2024, the group opened its first bricks-and-mortar gallery at a landmark beaux-arts building on Brussels's Place du Grand Sablon, originally constructed as the sales room and workshop of Belgian furrier Raymond Mallien.

The photography is by Mathijs Labadie.

Lima Charlie takes place from 11 March to the end of May 2026 at Objects with Narratives, Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. See Dezeen Events Guide for more architecture and design events around the world.