This is a painting in a nostalgic narrative style, where the storytelling is about simple memories of the artist’s childhood. The focus and the black & white format are creating a reference to photography. Finally, what do we still own from our past, what steers our memory, besides some old objects and photographs? In the artist’s project ”The way we were”, fragments of those photographs are reassembled into new scenes. This is one of them.
About Gerda Van Damme
Gerda Van Damme is a painter and video artist who works and lives in Charleroi, Belgium. She was finalist in the Arte Laguna Prize 2023 in the painting category. On that occasion she exhibited in the Arsenale in Venice. Also in 2023 she was finalist in the Prix d’Arts Plastiques et Visuels of Nivelles (Belgium) and as finalist in the Uncool Artists Contest, her work will be exhibited in a group exhibition in Brooklyn, New York later this year. This autumn she will also be part of a group exhibition in Berlin.
In 2022, she was the curator for a Belgian contemporary art festival, ”GRAND ECART”.