In my visual practice I am searching for encounters with the presence of absence. To cope with this desire to meet the strange, I created a methodology beyond words. The visual practice starts with the ritualistic act of rhythmic lines drawn by the tip of a fineliner. These fine lines transform themselves in extended visual language working with embroidery, woodcarving, stone carving, painting and performance. In my artistic practice, I use the ritual too as a trauma release. In my associative methodology of drawing, my process of grief gets a voice. This drawing voice is not only relatable for me, the viewer can relate in their own perspective through visualizing images related to death, as for example using skeleton parts in the artworks. These skeletons are inspired by the ‘Dance Macabre’ of the painter and printmaker, Hans Hoblein the younger (1497-1553). In the print series, the moving skeletons and carcasses symbolizes the equality of every human life in which death doesn’t make a distinction between being high or low class.
In my unconscious mind, collective myths get mixed up with imaginary landscapes which transform themselves into drawn human bodies with visible bone structures, organs, and non-human entities. These friendly monsters come into the world as artworks raising questions relating to human’s tendency to ‘other’ the unknown. What do I mean when I refer to the term ‘monster’? Better re-define this question as: What power structures preserve the term monster as ‘other’?
In my artworks I am searching for ambiguity, in which boundaries, especially terms as ‘life’ and ‘death’, are blurred. The entities, in my drawings, have human characters. The observer relates themselves to the estranged creature.
A Prenatal Kiss
Facial Traces
Facial Traces is a window exhibition running from 9th – 18th of May. In this duo presentation, Lore Pilzecker and Ellen-Rose Wallace explore themes such as loss, transformation, time and absence-related rituals. In our work, we ask ‘How can I develop a language around absence? How can I create a voice to speak about what is no longer present?’ Facial Traces is an exploration of performance, film, drawings, wood constructions, ceramics and photography.
Facial Traces
Facial Traces is a window exhibition running from 9th – 18th of May. In this duo presentation, Lore Pilzecker and Ellen-Rose Wallace explore themes such as loss, transformation, time and absence-related rituals. In our work, we ask ‘How can I develop a language around absence? How can I create a voice to speak about what is no longer present?’ Facial Traces is an exploration of performance, film, drawings, wood constructions, ceramics and photography.
The Tiny Art Gallery - Barcelona Swab Art Fair
Photocredit: Tommy Smits
Internal Encounters
Limburg Biennale
Photo credit: Gert Jan van Rooij
Phantom Event - Cover Simulacrum Magazine
Simulacrum Magazine Event - My art work was on the cover of their Phantom edition.
Foto credit: Niels Pot
A Prenatal Kiss
Invisible Blossom
A worm came to the exhibition of re-Membering Phantoms, craving the taste of a Rose.The crawling insect overheard the secret of another worm, talking about Roses that stay alive after being cut by transferring their life energy from their roots into their petals. Haunted by the conclusion that death could be evaded by ingesting the red petals, the worm started its search for immortality. After exploring for days the Worm finally found a delicious Rose.
Familiar UN Familiar
The traveler is often looking for unique experience in another world. A new environment, a different context that invites you to have a closer look. At the same time the traveler looks for something recognizable, universal or known found in the unknown. But with the traveler forced in the enclosed borders of her own environment, does this initiate a search for the strange and unknown in places that feel like home?