Untitled
At first glance, Sara Deraedt’s work looks like a desk. A metal and wood sculpture sits on a simple table. The cruciform grid that makes up this piece, set in a rectangular structure, could evoke a prison or a raised door. Prison is a motif that Sara Deraedt has explored since her first solo exhibition in July 2020 at the Établissement d’en face art space in Brussels. Drawings of the façade of the Brussels prison are exhibited to reveal the opacity of what is familiar and ordinary. With this installation, which could be both a model and a structure, the artist lets ideas circulate between the thin bars of the sculpture, playing on the question of what is accessible and what is inaccessible. Through silence and the absence of a label or discourse, she seeks to distract us from the reflex of seeking a monolithic explanation for the works, leaving it up to each viewer to conjure up their own imaginations and interpretations.
Text written by Clara Delettre as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
MHKA Musée d'art contemporain d'Anvers, Anvers (Belgique)
from 11 Sep 2021 to 09 Jan 2022