Valerie Mannaerts - Antennae

Metamorphosis, identity, and physicality: An overview of Valerie Mannaert's artistic practice over the past 30 years. Valerie Mannaerts works with photography, drawings, sculpture and textiles in her installations and objects. Often taking up surrealist and feminist concerns, her questions is: What story can an object tell? When does an object become a sculpture? How does a sculpture relate to the pictorial plane, space and the viewer? And: What is its relationship to the human body? Her works do not manifest as fixed objects, but as a process of constant transformation, establishing complex connections between her world, her work, and the viewer.