Gender and art

"S.M.A.K. and Mu.ZEE present a selective survey of work by Lili Dujourie (Roeselare, 1941), ranging from her debut to the most recent pieces. FOLDS IN TIME is a unique project conceived as one exhibition in two museums. To see the show as a whole one has to travel sixty kilometres in the wake of the artist, from the land to the sea or vice versa. This two-part exhibition format derives from Dujourie’s artistic practice, in which the notion of the ‘fragment’ is an essential element [...]"

 

Lili Dujourie - Folds in time

6 June–4 October 2015

Mu.ZEE, art museum by the sea, Ostend , Belgium

www.muzee.be

S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium

www.smak.be

 

With her first sculptures, at the end of the 1960s, Lili Dujourie engaged in a purified work, in osmosis with Minimal Art and Arte Povera, situating herself as an artist at a time when women were a rarity in a world of men. Later, in the 1970s, she produced black and white silent videos of languorous movements, her own naked body coiled up in an interior window space. Then in the 1980s came majestic sculptural installations. The content of these sculptures involved drapery in trompe l’oeil, plush satin, smoothed plaster folds, checkerboard black and white marble, a broken oval vanity mirror, a gold leaf frame, bas-reliefs with false perspectives, unfolded wind-breakers, torn fragments of photos.