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Astrid Moors

schilderen - design - digitale technologie - interactief - publieke ruimte

A substantive context of many of my recent works is the appropriation of the forest by man, who sees nature only as a tool, an attraction. Representing the degradation of nature and our living environment in an aesthetic way, seen from a distance and sometimes zoomed in to cell level. In my work, it is never only nature, but what you see is always adapted, changed, moulded by man. A poetic field of tension between the two. Layering, in paint and also in meaning.

In my paintings I pay attention to the finesse of a rhythm, the order and repetition. An aesthetic packaging, an approachable, manageable image with a negative connotation. It is precisely that double charge, that non-uniformity, that tension that I find intriguing.