Visual artist, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Her work is a visual phenomenon that embodies a delicate balance, first evoking an aesthetic response in the viewer. This centrifugal 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 existing textile – carries narratives, memories and emotions within it.

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.

Naturally colored threads pile up rhythmically in constant movement, line by line, gestures between past and future. The hues radiate and unfold across the compositions and canvas surface. These interwoven colors, rather than superimposed layers of paint, form the essence of her practice. Chromatic, flickering, and blurry 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 surface, completing the last step of the works. Western painters established the square as a foundational geometric form, a symbol of modernist experimentation that challenged 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 textiles as both surface and subject, she aims to transcend traditional image-making, 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, Marres House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, Netherlands, and solo exhibitions at E.A. Shared Space in Tbilisi, Georgia and at Saarländische Galerie in Berlin, Germany. In Belgium her work has been exhibited at the IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen, Le Delta in Namur, Fred&Ferry Gallery in Antwerp, and at Centrale of Contemporary Art, Ccinq, Recyclart, Pilar and Whitehouse Gallery in Brussels.

Among others, she has been artist-in-residence at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre (2023), iMAL (2022), Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain (2022), CAB Foundation (2021), in Brussels, and at the Frans Masereel Centrum (2024), in Kasterlee, Belgium. In 2019 she participated at the Académie des Savoir-Faire, 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.

Current

Artist-in-residence at Thread – Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, January and February 2025, Sinthian, Tambacounda, Senegal.

Hosting at Centrale for Contemporary Art in Brussels, Belgium. Group exhibition until February 9.

Maestria – EPAA 2024 at Anciens Abattoirs de Mons, Mons, Belgium. Group exhibition until February 16.

Upcoming

Group exhibition at Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany. Opening in March 2025.

Solo exhibition at Affiliate – Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium. Opening in May 2025.

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