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(…)Hedwig Brouckaert explores and deconstructs media and contemporary culture, not nature, in Victoira`s Secret Fall 2009 VI and L.L. Bean Fall 2009 III. The artist traces figures in fashion magazines, overlaying image upon image until the forms are lost n a maze of lines. She draws with carbon paper and, in the artists words, “I layer processes of drawing, photography and digital printing; repeating these processes numerous times in a single work”. The “handless”, smooth surface of the digital print seems in keeping with the spirit of a slick mail order catalog that will be tossed out as trashed, endemic to our throw away culture. (…)