Eline De Clercq
Eline De Clercq stayed several times in Tokyo where her style evolved into a critical reading of European art history. Her paintings, drawings, texts, installations and film show the underexposed aspects of ecology and LGBTQIA+. Eline works on an ecotone between gardening and an intersectional art practice. In her portraits, Eline explores the diversity of lesbian and trans people, or what does the face of those outside the norm of a museum, gallery, art book look like? Since 2019, Eline has been developing the ecological artistic project the Gesamthof, a lesbian garden. This garden is activated by guided tours on gender diversity, decolonialism, economics, botanical systems, climate change and ecology. The garden is an ever changing work of art where humans are not central and art is part of the bigger picture. Eline chooses not to make solo exhibitions, and always collaborates with other intersectional artists to draw attention to the intrinsically intertwined artistic presentations.
To this end, she founded Wool Publishing in 2018, an artistic project that offers multicultural voices both in physical space and on paper. Since 2022, Eline has initiated aparticipatory garden at the Royal Academy in Antwerp as a researcher to engage students connected to the art disciplines in restoring ecology and to discuss climate crisis and mental resilience in the visual arts.