Biography
I’m a passionate collector of images and discoverer of stories. At my graduation exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in 2011, I presented my recollections, as blurred and transformed as they reappeared, in the sequence ‘Small Memories’. Representing ‘a memory of a memory on a memory’ proved to be the start for the theme in my work. This can be summarized in the phrase ‘the making is a remaking’: we cannot catch the world as it is, we can only catch descriptions or versions of a world, or rather worlds, in a constant process of making and remaking.
Since 2012, I’ve been depicting this theme in the series ‘Ways of Worldmaking’, in paintings, drawings, objects and combinations of media. My formally diversified artistic approach and presentations recently also include installations of photographs, based on found photos and photo albums. One of the series ‘Only in Belgium’ is a project I love to send in for Familydom (Visible White) as it shows the fragmented experiences – and voids – we are left with in our family scrapbook.
