Marie Zolamian (°1975, Beirut, LB ) lives and works in Liège. She has exhibited at Bombon projects gallery, Barcelona (2024); Jester/CIAP, Genk (2022); [removed] Ostend (2018); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2013) and participated in group exhibitions at BPS22, Charleroi (2023) and Wiels, Brussels (2021). Her work is included in several private and public collections, including BPS (Charleroi, BE), MACS (Grand Hornu, BE), Mu-ZEE (Ostend, BE), M Leuven (BE), Flemish community collection, National Bank of Belgium, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BE), La Boverie (Liège, BE), Space collection (Liège, BE), Province of Liège (BE), MUMC (Maastricht, NL), EF Education First (CH & GB). One of her most important works is a 76m2 mosaic for the peristyle of KMSKA Antwerp (2022), for which she received the Ianchelevici prize for architectural integration.
In her oeuvre, Western and Eastern ways of life, thoughts and histories intermingle. An iconography emerges based on repeated attempts at integration, establishing links – sometimes discordant – between man and nature, memory of the individual and the collective, between tradition, separation and upheaval, between a place, a time and a culture.
Witold Vandenbroeck (°1994, Leuven, BE) lives and works in Antwerp. He is an artist, photographer and writer. His paintings can be read as a translation of his personal philosophy on the relationship between man and nature. This theme unfolds in the figuration of plants, stones and objects, which he depicts iconographically. In doing so, he tries to unravel the hidden structure of society driven by economic and political models and explore the value of authenticity. Thus, during long walks with or without a camera, he takes space and time to write, paint and simply be in the landscape. He looks for a connection that is missing in our society, especially in urban contexts.
This principle is also reflected in the materiality. In an artisanal way, he often, but not exclusively, mixes animal glue with natural pigments.