Nature offers inspiration to artists. It always has. And so it is with the artists in this exhibition. Admittedly, they engage with it in different ways.
Here in Flanders, we are in one large urbanised area, where fragmented remnants of nature remain between the concrete roads and streets. Some artists in this exhibition therefore mix nature with artificial elements. Concern is echoed in their works, but at the same time a fascination for this ‘new nature’.
Just as the technological world looks at how creation processes happen in nature - think of surgeons using sutures made from silkworms - artists also explore the nature of creation in nature. What actually is creation? Do humans create as nature creates? And as an artist, what can you learn from this?
The line between nature and the digital world is blurring. Forms from nature are being reproduced again with technology. Creation processes of nature are actively provoked as actors in their art.
This exhibition shows nature as we experience it today: fragmented, mixed with human interventions, but also resistant and powerful.
Curator: Annelies Nagels
Artists: Fia Cielen, Caroline Coolen, Julie De Kezel, Kasper De Vos, Liesbeth Henderickx, Gideon Kiefer, Chris Meulemans, Mathias Mu, Stijn Stragier, Stijn Yperman