Cecile Broekaert
Tiny encounter series
Left the table, watched the seasons change
Through flying kites and unresolved endings
The talk of the town
Forget me not
A talk that ended in the middle of the night
Giving fear a shape
Finders keepers
That what keeps you up at night
Requiem
B’rock Orchestra
Four of cups
She should have stayed in bed
2024 - ...
Series of paintings on a teeny tiny format that form a relationship with my daily (diary) sketchbooks. To be continued ...
2025
Ongoing series of works where I take interest in story’s that have a realitionship with the change of the seasons.
Zijspoor, Ghent (BE), 2024
This image captures the essence of freedom and the search for closure. Kites symbolize fun, hope and a dreamy nostalgic feeling, while unresolved endings remind us that not everything is always clear.
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This bilboard illustration was made for ‘Zijspoor’ a project in the framework of the 5th Sorry, Not Sorry festival organised in Moscou-Vogelhoek, Ghent. Zijspoor is an ongoing exhibition on a commercial bilboard, curated by local artists Lukas Verstraete and Martha Verschaffel.
Every other two months a selected artist will create a new image, inspired by the neighbourhood of Moscou-Vogelhoek.
https://www.instagram.com/sorrynotsorryghent/
Kunstenfestival Watou (BE), 2024
“During my residency in Watou I decided to look for a powerful narrative. I wanted to find just one strong story or visual sentence.
That would be enough.
I ended up getting much more than I expected. The longer I was in Watou, the more stories I got to hear from a very diverse group of people. Stories about their daily view on their village, about how they had ended up there, what attracts and repels them, who they knew, about their first love ...
But they also expressed their love and/or discomfort towards the artists and artworks that descend on their beloved (or not so beloved) village, every year.
It became a patchwork of the inhabitants of a village, that is influenced by the French border, by the merger with Poperinge and the influx of visitors of the arts festival. All this leaves an impression. This coming together of people, images and feelings was mirrored in the Patchwwwork residence itself: a group of artists of various backgrounds, with different customs and habits, who also exchanged impressions about the arts festival, the people, Watou and each other.”
I documented all stories and impressions during my stay in Watou and distilled from them an installation in which the different elements come together to form a whole.
Sounddesign by Ewoud Vermote
On boards Biennale, Antwerp (BE), 2023
Day becomes night. The sun hides away and makes place for an overpowering dark blue curtain. People go home, stay in, go out, see places, see others, see friends, family, colleagues or seek the unknown.
When the night unfolds, events of all kinds take place. At a certain point small light beams start peeking through the dark blue curtain, shining a light on the remaining evidence of events that enroled in the night. The night comes to an end and so do the events that took place.
Evidence or relics of a night in the past start to show up. They form puzzle pieces of the past night. Pieces that don’t know yet where they belong.
Loved and cherished or quickly to be forgotten?
A talk that ended in the middle of the night / Two weeks with love
21ste Biennale Hedendaagse Kunst, Aalter (BE), 2023
Series based on late night conversations/dreams where the day after you find yourself scrambling the pieces of the story into a whole.
2023
Work made for auction Gaza an art auction in solidarity with the people of Gaza.