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Anne Daems

Installatiezicht Tuinkamer Bozar, Brussel  © Kristien Daem


Anne Daems makes photographs, drawings, videos and installations. By means of precise observations she navigates through our complex world, focusing on details of everyday life. Actions and events that are seemingly unimportant at first glance are placed in the foreground and meticulously unravelled. All details are equally valid and meaningful, revealing a complete microcosm about a particular subject or persona. The wondrous nature of these works lies precisely in the non-spectacular aspect, nothing and yet everything is equally meaningful and mysterious. 

In Garden Room, her first solo exhibition at Bozar, she engages in a dialogue with Victor Horta's architecture and creates an environmental installation in which she explores her own garden utopia, a wobbly idyll full of ambiguity. A contemporary hortus conclusus for introspection, for connection with nature in the rhythm and rituals of everyday life. More than simply touching on nature, her work is a reflection on the world and how the artist relates to it, where humor and relativity can always sneak in.


Installatiezicht Tuinkamer Bozar, Brussel
Studie voor Windmuren Tuinkamer Bozar, 2021
Installatiezicht Tuinkamer, Bozar, Brussel, 2021
Compost tafel voor tuinkamer 4
Detail Compost tafel voor tuinkamer 8
De naaktslak had een vergeet-me-nietje in zijn mond
Wormenbak 2
Stoel Gustave Serrurier-Bovy bedekt met kledingstukken 2
Stoel
Installatiezicht Anne Daems & Kenneth Andrew Mroczek
From here to there and back again
From here to there and back again
Installatiezicht My Father's Garden
My Father's Garden
My Father's Garden
My Father's Garden
Installatie Ikebana
Elegant Amusement
Detail Ikebana
Compost tekening
Compost tekening
Elegant Amusement
Installatiezicht Het één konijn is het andere niet
The salesman at Macy's
We gleaned some sea weed
Stripes are in again
Agnes put her shoe in the front door to prop it open for the arriving guests
Vandaag eten we mosselen
Een toren van opgestapelde boodschappenmandjes
Miami Woman
Installatiezicht diaprojectie 72 girls and some boys that could be models, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen, 2006
72 girls and some boys that could be models Diaprojectie Variabele dimensies 2006
Installatiezicht De Pont, Tilburg 2005
Videostill Doorzichtige plastieken zakken
Installatiezicht Woman with fur coat and golden ring
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Installatiezicht Remember the small things
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Station bars
Openbare veiling
Installatiezicht on the desperate and long neglected need for small events
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