Caroline Herck

"By imagination we abandon the ordinary course of things. To imagine is to be absent, to launch oneself into a new life " (Gaston Bachelard)

Caroline Herck, a Belgian artist, gifts us with two new works in the ARTOXIC exhibition which continue her research, her thematic content and her pictorial style. “Underground resistance” brings the handling of materials such as fabric and charcoal, creating a dialogue between the drawing of human anatomy and her own embroidery technique and alternative process. In her work, the figure appears lying down and sleeping; on their body, functional elements can be seen printed on glued fabrics, elements that represent the roles that human beings play during life. In an unfolding of ideas in which sleeping plays a fundamental role in the process of reorganizing and recreating human life, Caroline Herck plays with the movements and structure of the lines of the human body.