Gedragingen / Bearings
Photographs

Images and text from the Gedragingen exhibition catalogue.
"In her work she often uses lost objects which she integrates into new entities. The history, the past of these objects dictates to her the form the installation should take."

"Clay, though, has no past. Perhaps that is why working with clay was such an eye-opener for her; to become one with the material and to transform every movement into a form."

"Beatrijs Lauwaert gives clay its history and shapes it into bearing sculptures. The bondage with clay is so strong that she does not want to let the forms go; they become part of herself."

"The photographs are ambiguous images, as much in their content as in their form. Images passing into each other, references to the paradoxes of life. They wish to hold and to touch. The aggression against cherishing ..."

- Els Stubbe (Gedragingen catalogue)

"Clay, though, has no past. Perhaps that is why working with clay was such an eye-opener for her; to become one with the material and to transform every movement into a form."

"Beatrijs Lauwaert gives clay its history and shapes it into bearing sculptures. The bondage with clay is so strong that she does not want to let the forms go; they become part of herself."

"The photographs are ambiguous images, as much in their content as in their form. Images passing into each other, references to the paradoxes of life. They wish to hold and to touch. The aggression against cherishing ..." - Els Stubbe (Gedragingen catalogue)

See works on paper. Back to Gedragingen page / front page

"The photographs are ambiguous images, as much in their content as in their form. Images passing into each other, references to the paradoxes of life. They wish to hold and to touch. The aggression against cherishing ..."

- Els Stubbe (Gedragingen catalogue)

See works on paper.
Back to Gedragingen page / front page