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memymom (Lisa De Boeck/Marilène Coolens)

The Escape 2011 (Croxhapox, Juni 2012)


Memymom is a collaboration between two artist, a mother (Marilène Coolens) and her daughter (Lisa De Boeck). The cross-generational project began between with what the pair describes as a 'hangover from the past.' They are referring to analogue image archives of Marilene encouraging Lisa to express; to invent her own improvised theatre sketches. These semi-staged dreamscape portraits developed into a mature conversation that deals not only with personal identity, potential and a maternal relationship, but has evolved into a plea for sensual analysis and tragic romanticism. Their recent work produces an emotional aesthetics that stops just short of the erotic; inventing mystery, exercising intimacy and creating a post-modern hyperlinked narrative where anything might unfold.


The Escape 2011 (Croxhapox, Juni 2012)
The Escape 2011 (Croxhapox, Juni 2012)
The Escape 2011 (Croxhapox, Juni 2012)
The Escape 2011 (Croxhapox, Juni 2012)
La Petite Princesse, 2012 (Recyclart Art Center, Oktober 2012)
La Petite Princesse, 2012 (Recyclart Art Center, Oktober 2012)
La Petite Princesse, 2012 (Recyclart Art Center, Oktober 2012)
La Petite Princesse, 2012 (Recyclart Art Center, Oktober 2012)
La Petite Princesse, 2012 (Recyclart Art Center, Oktober 2012)
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