Artist
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Berlinde de Bruyckere
Belgium
Born in 1964, de Bruyckere has been working in the field of figurative sculpture since the 1990s. She creates experimental works using organic materials such as wax, wood, wool, blankets, and horse hide and hair. Inspired by images from the media and reports from war correspondents, De Bruyckeer transforms bodies and body parts into deeply moving works, transformed with wood and wax. Their unmediated brutality challenges the viewer, drawing them into imagined moments of death, pain and torture without offering them the possibility of intervention. Her inaccessible works, with a sense of oppressive anonymity, draw us in and distance us at the same time.