Acquisition :
2006
Description
2006
Acrylic on wood
Variable dimensions (Series of 3 elements: 35 x 100 cm, 21 x 55 cm, 33 x 45 cm)
Purchase SPACE Liège
The idea of creating a giant comic led Aurélie William Levaux to create several narrative sequences on wood cut-outs. The untitled triptych, which anticipates the dominant theme of one of her main publications, “Menses Ante Rosam”: maternity, belongs to this stage. Here we find another of his recurring characters, a little girl, but a little girl who speaks like a woman. She presents herself as her alter ego because, as the artist confesses, it’s a form of diary that she has primarily developed in the form of embroidered drawings on canvas. For her, the triptych is a work halfway between her artistic origins – alternative, auteur comics – and the world of contemporary art.
Aurélie William Levaux is a Liege-based artist of international stature. Since 2003, she has been publishing her drawings in fanzines and, since 2008, regularly editing her own books. In them, she invites us into a world where dreams and reality mingle, and where femininity, maternity and sex take center stage. The starting point is her intuitions, imagination, desires, anxieties and experiences, treated with fantasy and mastery of drawing. These evocatively expressive works are open to multiple interpretations.
(Genaro Marcos)