ESSAYS
(…)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. (…)
by Roberta Waddell
2011
Marked Differences
Essay for group show of selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
June 3 – July 24, 2011
Kentler International Drawing Space
Brooklyn, New York