As you know, our collection is growing by leaps and bounds! We’re thrilled to share with you the latest pieces we’ve discovered on our return from vacation. Get ready to dive into the extraordinary worlds of Élodie Antoine, Yasmina Assbane, Sahlah Davids, Cécile Davidovici & David Ctiborsky, Juliette de Graaf, and Nina Tomàs!

Elodie Antoine (b. 1978, Belgium) presents us with a deeply personal body of work, crafting a distinctive visual identity. She masters various ancestral techniques that contribute to collective traditions: embroidery, felting, bobbin lace, as well as glasswork, cement casting, working with human hair, and more. While her production may initially seem eclectic, a unifying thread weaves through it, reflecting two major orientations: the use of so-called traditional techniques and the intrinsic contradiction of the object. Ambivalence permeates her work: at first glance, it suggests consensualism, even docility. Yet what drives the artist is the hidden, the intimate, the concealed that masks the harsh truth, social inadequacies, and unspoken desires. The id and the superego advance in disguise. Beneath the apparent fragility, Elodie Antoine meticulously controls the creative process from start to finish, almost obsessively. By employing materials often associated with women, she blurs the lines of male dominance and humorously challenges gender stereotypes. (Text by Garlone Egels)

New in our collection: 'Mammifère', 2024. Ironing board and felt. +Info

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Yasmina Assbane (b.1968, Belgium) questions the dominant perception of the woman's body as an object of decoration and consumption of the gaze. Her artistic approach is strongly rooted in the daily mundanity and in the material life of familiar objects essentially attributed to women. They are emptied of their primary function through dismantling and symbolic reconfiguration strategies. (Text by Anastasia Palii)

New in our collection: 'Untitled', 2023. Glass, ceramic and textile. +Info

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Sahlah Davids (b. 1998, South Africa) Delving into the mediums of textiles and beadwork, mixed media artist Sahlah Davids, uses her heritage and strong affiliation to the realm of religious politics to sow the seeds of her creativity. Sahlah has pursued the intricacies of religion and politics within the field of art and their relationship as one. Davids has described her methods of creation as the product of the blended learning and trades of the Cape Muslim community, specifically the elders within her family. It is within the domestic, traditional and religious spaces that Sahlah draws on the skills of her lineage, the history of their struggles and ultimately the embodiment of their spirituality.

New in our collection: 'Somewhere in The Basement', 2024. Wood, metal, pearls and textiles. +Info

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Cécile Davidovici (b.1987, France) is a self-taught artist who only discovered embroidery in 2018. She makes the medium of textiles her own, playing with threads in the manner a painter would with paint, she is carving out her very own niche within the world of contemporary Art. She now collaborates with David Ctiborsky (b. 1983, France), who creates 3D compositions that she transfers into embroidery. In their collaborative series “La vie silencieuse” lies a fascination for the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi, for his ability to make silence vibrate. They start with the coldest, most technological of objects and, at each stage, to gain intimacy and flesh.

New in our collection: 'La vie silencieuse', 2023. Cotton threads on linen. +Info

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Juliette de Graaf (b.1983, The Netherlands)’s art is the result of the study for memory. Memories fade and personal memories coincide with collective memories. The story anchored within us is constantly changing and so is the collective story. Stories are retold and twisted and become and exist non-linear. Her work shows the transformative and temporal story. A painting, a canvas, a drawing, these are temporary documents that try to be immortalized. All works are part of a story, on the one hand a personal canon on the other, this personal canon is also linked to an art historical canon. The capricious history, the unreliability of memories, the use of painting to evoke - or create - memories and the unique combination of art-historical 'facts', autobiographical elements and fiction result in a new way of storytelling.

New in our collection: 'Suffragette City', 2023. Resin, acrylic, dress gloves. +Info

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Nina Tomàs (b. 1989, Belgium)' enigmatic works are based on a compilation of memories, dreams and historical facts, set in dialogue like the colorful snippets of a constantly reinvented story. Rejecting the limits of the frame, overflowing onto the walls and articulating her compositions in organic patchworks, the artist creates new spaces that invite an inner journey. Following her intuition with patience, Nina Tomàs develops an eclectic pictorial style. Nina Tomàs seeks to transgress conventional systems of thought, combining the personal and the universal to address ecological, economic, political and social issues in a cosmogony all her own. Her openness to others leads to encounters between very different cultures and visual codes, giving her sequential works the character of exquisite cadavers, or even multi-hand creations. (Text by Fanny Weinquin) 

New in our collection: 'Chiffon', 2023. Ceramic. +Info