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Katrien De Blauwer (Belgium, 1969) takes the viewer on a journey
between dream and reality. With ‘she won’t open her eyes’, the artist
adds a remarkable concept series to her oeuvre, filled with formal
experiments that mark a shift in her imagery.
The
work of Katrien De Blauwer is always partly autobiographical. Although
she uses material taken from vintage magazines and turns it into
anonymous and universally recognisable images by cutting out the faces,
she reassembles and appropriates this found imagery into a new, very
personal narrative that is far removed from its original meaning.
Created in a spontaneous and intuitive manner - mainly guided by her own
emotions - De Blauwer’s photomontages depict her personal life story
and memories. In a same way, the series ‘she won’t open her eyes’ found
its roots in a personal experience, arisen in a period in which the
artist experienced a lack of sleep and started to reflect about the
concept of sleep and dreams. A book she read at the time - ‘The House of
the Sleeping Beauties’ (1961) by the Japanese writer and Nobel prize
winner Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) - would eventually become the
starting point of this new series.