A PIT MAKES A PILE

While her artistic practice originally has its roots in the field of illustration, she now blossoms in three dimensions and creates plane volumes made of timber that gets polished so meticulously that it takes the shade and the delicacy of precious essences. Her three-dimensional artwork also takes the form of modular structures defying the spaces into which they fit and used to exhibit smaller objects.

Her teeming and deeply fun universe thrives on the influence of comics, comic strips, board games, canteen gastronomy or outdated ads from King Baudouin’s Belgium. This collection of shapes, objects and absurd figures generates a fantasy that is common to the instinctively identifiable edges.

For this fifth edition of Art au Centre, Jan presents us a wide wood structure showing on its side several elements buried under its flat surface. This enclosed whole entirely made of angles, horizontality and straight lines with visible grids, evokes a singular archaeological site. A landscape, a model, mountains ready to be explored. Are the excavations ongoing or is this work site interrupted, abandoned ?