Visual artist, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

The starting point of her work is the legacy of the textile medium. With a personal approach, she explores techniques anchored in ancestral textile-making, encompassing references and traditions from geographically dispersed, hybrid cultures, as well as customs throughout the history of weaving and dyeing. She creates color compositions of and patterns from traditional production methods, which transports the textile heritage into a contemporary context.

Her work is a visual phenomenon that embodies a delicate plastic balance, first evoking an aesthetic response in the viewer. This presence with no center point or singular direction, captures the gaze and mesmerizes through a symbiotic fusion of texture, tone, and light. These compositions and colors invite immediate viewing while simultaneously revealing intricate details, sensitivity, and multidimensionality. Her works, like every textile in existence, carry stories within their very fabric, they convey narratives, preserve memories and reveal embedded emotions.

Naturally colored threads pile up rhythmically, in constant movement, line by line – gestures between past and future. The hues radiate and unfold through the compositions that are anchored in the canvas surface. These interwoven colors, rather than superimposed layers of paint, form the essence of her practice. Chromatic, fuzzy or flickering impressions may appear, creating tangible and pictorial images. These configurations of woven band fabrics – arranged time-fragments, form a visual and abstract image. Mounted on frames, the fabrics make it possible to see the colors in vibration, transforming into painting-like works – des tableaux.

Through the act of stretching her hand-woven canvases, she defines the square format, completing the last step of the works, it is more than only a compositional choice, it’s also a statement of autonomy for the textile which is now central.

In Western art history the square has established itself as a fundamental geometric form, a symbol of modernist experimentation that challenges notions of composition and perspective. While the textile medium is traditionally associated with femininity and craft, here it is elevated into the visual domain, intertwining textile practice with representation and iconography. By using it as both surface and subject, she blurs the line between these notions, seeking to transcend traditional image-making and questioning the very nature of an image.

Bio

Her work has been shown in numerous international group exhibitions, including the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, New York Textile Month, United States, and Marres House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, Netherlands. She has also held solo exhibitions at E.A. Shared Space in Tbilisi, Georgia and at Saarländische Galerie in Berlin, Germany. In Brussels, her work has been exhibited at Ccinq, Centrale for Contemporary Art, RecyclArt, Pilar, Plagiarama and Whitehouse Gallery. Elsewhere in Belgium, she has shown work at Le Delta in Namur, Barbé Gallery in Ghent, Fred&Ferry Gallery in Antwerp, and at the IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen, where she won both the public and the 3rd Feminist Art Prize 2022.

Among others, she has been artist-in-residence at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre (2023), iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology (2022), Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain (2022), CAB Foundation (2021) in Brussels, as well as at the Frans Masereel Centrum (2024) in Kasterlee, Belgium. Most recently she was artist-in-residence at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation – Thread (2025) in Sinthian, Tambacounda, Senegal. In 2019, she participated in the Académie des savoir-faire by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in Paris, France.

After studying visual arts in Brussels, Lucerne, and Hamburg, she completed her studies in the textile department of ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels in 2013. Since 2018 she has been teaching at KASK School of Arts in Ghent.

Currently

Material Glitch, group exhibition at Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, opening on March 14, on view until April 26, 2025.

Upcoming

Solo exhibition at Affiliate – WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium, opening on May 14.

Artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris, France, winter 2025.