Eline De Clercq

BIOGRAPHIE

Eline De Clercq (1979, Belgium) lives and works inAntwerp. “After graduating in 2001 at KASK Gent, I continued mystudies as a volunteer in the botanical garden in Ghent andI focused on my studio practice. This allowed me to spendsome years travelling abroad and spend quite some time inTokyo. Since 2004 I live in Antwerp where I have a paintingstudio, and while I am a painter I also work on a lesbiangarden project, I teach art theory and I work on ecology inthe visual arts. My style is a mix of European tradition and Eastern values.My paintings and drawings refer to feminist topics, a criticalreading of art history, caring for ecology, understandingnature, questioning the role of art in representation ofminorities and working towards more diversity. The lesbian gaze is an important aspect of the work. Mypaintings imagine a diversity in the representation of alesbian identity. My subjects are not narrowed down to theaxes of gender and sexuality (often the norm as a malegaze), instead they show lots of different identities to openup the concept of what might be 'typical' lesbian andimagine endless personalities. I like to work in collaborations with other artists, myexhibitions are never solo, but shared with others. For thispurpose I founded Wool Publishing in 2018, a project forshared art practices and ecology. Several of my projectsfocus on antiracial and anti-misogynist topics; with extracare for intersectional realities. Since 2019 I started to workon a project about restoring ecology in a city garden,working on the various intersections with nature in agarden: gender, class, sexuality, colonialism, economy, etcare all part of the lesbian garden Gesamthof.” (more info: http://elinedc.blogspot.com/)

FILMOGRAPHIE