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EXPOSITIONJulie Calbert - Êkhô
Stien Bekaert - Unforeseen Events
VERNISSAGE / OPENING Jeudi / Thursday
28.11.24 - 18:00 > 21h (en présence de Julie Calbert & Stien Bekaert)
EXPO > 22.12.24 (from friday to sunday 14:30 - 19:00)
(FR)
Dans le cadre du Chapitre II de l'exposition en cours "Êkhô",
Julie Calbert invite l’artiste Stien Bekaert. À travers cette collaboration, les deux artistes explorent le lien entre leurs œuvres et créent un dialogue, nous proposant chacune une perspective sur la nature et le paysage. Quand Stien transforme des images de catastrophes naturelles en compositions abstraites, offrant une méditation sur l’impact des désastres, Julie examine le paysage comme une matière vivante et résonante, oscillant de l’horizon à l’infiniment petit avec des teintes minérales et des formes éthérées. Ensemble, elles nous invitent à réfléchir sur notre lien avec la nature et les échos de ses transformations.
(EN)
For Chapter II of this exhibition, Julie Calbert invites artist Stien Bekaert. Through this collaboration, the two artists explore the link between their works and create a dialogue, each offering us a different perspective on nature and landscape. While Stien transforms images of natural catastrophes into abstract compositions, offering a meditation on the impact of disasters, Julie examines the landscape as a living, resonant material, oscillating from the horizon to the infinitely small with mineral hues and ethereal forms. Together, they invite us to reflect on our connection with nature and the echoes of its transformations.
Stien Bekaert - Unforeseen Events
Unforeseen Events (2017-2020) reimagines found images of natural disasters—hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and forest fires—through a graphic lens that transforms their documentary origins into works of poetic resonance. By selecting, reprocessing, and abstracting these images; Stien Bekaert initiates a metamorphosis: familiar scenes of devastation are rendered as layered, abstract compositions on fabric, distancing them from their original context. Using distinct techniques, materials, and image manipulations, Stien Bekaert creates a cohesive ensemble.
In these works materials take precedence over imagery; reshaping the source images through color alteration, fragment recombination, and a shift from traditional paper to textile. The result is a series that transcends mere representation; inviting viewers to explore an emotive, almost meditative response to natural disaster. These scenes become a quiet, pervasive presence—an inevitability that humanity seems to veil as a fait divers, something that has passed and became part of our existence. We are left to ask ourselves: do we grow numb to the changes in nature, or do we simply look away?
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Julie Calbet - ÊKHÔ (2022 - )
That which reproduces or recalls something, a trace, a mark.
Êkhô is a series composed of prints, installations, and objects related to the notion of landscape. Sizes and scales range from the microscope to the horizon, and the spatial arrangement guides our gaze from the most distant to the closest layers of matter. Julie Calbert repeats a recurring gesture in her work : the cultivation of photographic imagery. Tones, whether intentional or accidental, bring us back to the periodic table with its golds, silvers, methylene blues, oxidized greens, and coal blacks. She borrows the classification of plates, slides, and clichés from scientific iconography, then carefully arranges her images into series to highlight both their periodicity and chemical properties.
In ancient Greek, êkhéô ("where the echo comes from") can mean both "to make noise" and "to resonate". More precisely, it means "to render a sound". Here, Julie Calbert breaks through the surface to propose a fractured landscape that wells up, oscillates, and vibrates in silence, much like the feminine figures that punctuate her series.
Translated from the original text by Myriam Pruvot.
EXPO > 22.12.24 (friday > sunday 14:30 - 19:00)
L'Enfant Sauvage
Rue de l'enseignement 23
1000 Bruxelles
[email protected]
www.enfantsauvagebxl.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rue de l'enseignement 23, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, Onderrichtsstraat 23, 1000 Brussel, België,Brussels, Belgium
