The artist's work is inextricably intertwined between fantasy and reality. The paintings and works on paper reveal the power of women when they depict something—sometimes bordering on the dark—about power, rituals, and our relationship to others. With a base of pencil and charcoal, Marie Louise Elshout paints her figures in oil, which oscillate between human and animal. In dark, layered works, she primarily reveals the vulnerability of human existence. Christina de Vos employs various techniques in large series of drawings, paintings, and objects, in which she thoroughly explores a subject that is personal to her and therefore essential. Arie van Geest paints an almost hallucinatory, delusional world in which his creatures balance between reality and dream. In the series "The Broken Promised Land," it is primarily Alice who gives meaning to this wondrous world. Gallery curator Astrid de Pauw brings these artists together because, according to her, all three are searching—using imagination as a weapon (or perhaps as a shield?)—for a way to survive in a difficult-to-understand and dangerous world.
