Natasja Mabesoone
My visual language is inspired by bus travel, the Silly Symphonies of Disney, board games, the essays of J.F. Vogelaar, the poems of S. Mallarmé, the language poetry of Hannah Weiner, sudokus and puns.
Natasja Mabesoone via WIELS, 2020
Through an associative and poetic visual language, Natasja Mabesoone (1988, Belgium) reflects on themes of sensuality and sexuality, powerlessness and aggression. Her unique imagery explores femininity, the subversiveness of cuteness, and domesticity as a potential form of resistance.
Her work combines the seventeenth-century vernis mou printing technique with monotypes and drawings. This technique uses flowers, textiles, or textured paper pressed into a soft etching ground, producing a delicate, subtly structured surface that serves as a drawing-like background. Over or beneath this base, Mabesoone layers a freely associating procession of figures and objects, often monoprinted or applied with pencil or marker.
