Picture by Jade KerremansMarlies Vander Straeten (BE, 1993) is a visual artist who creates playfully. The classroom in which her studio is located serves as her playground.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Her paintings and drawings are painted over several times and read like a layered weave of dreamy stories and recurring self-invented symbols. A symbolism that arises through a play of different media.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Pudding cups are transformed into molds for sculptures, there are old board games on the floor of her studio and wires are attached to the ceiling for homemade flags for (as yet) non-existing countries.
Play, feeling and time is the atmosphere in which Vander Straeten creates. Everything is made by hand so time is almost tactile in the work. It also adds to its sensitivity. Each flag harks back to a snapshot of a feeling. She wants to convey a feeling and not a story.
First solo exhibition at Tatjana Pieters Gallery, 2022
Textile paintings
Liefdesverdriet, 202220,5cm x 30.5cm
Acrylic and tape on textile
Zon, 2019
29cm x 22.5cm
Acrylic on textile
Sterrenstof, 201912 cm x 10 cm
Acrylic on textile
Stralen, 2020
11 cm x 9.5 cm
Acrylic on textile
Het regent, 2022
30 × 42 cm
Acrylic on textile
Wolken zijn wolken en gaan voorbij, 2022
162 cm × 159 cm
Acrylic and cotton on boat tarpaulin
De zon schijnt
200 cm x 300 cm
Acrylic and coton and metal
Bostopia at Het Bos
Performance
Hobbenzakrace in colaboration with Fleur de Roeck, Volksaard at het Bos in Antwerp
Picture by : Fleur de Roeck
Pictures by: Daria Miasoedova
Sculptures
Untitled, 2022
Matress foam hung by a wooden dowel, rope and pulleys
23 × 43.5 cm
Sketchbook drawings
Marker on paper
15cm x 18cm
Untitled, 2020
Marker, black ink and pencile on carton
13 cm x 15 cm