For each production I created a new image and I also supported B’rocks educational projects.
https://b-rock.org/team/cecile-broekaert/
On boards Biennale
‘Forget me not’
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 happened 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?
2023.
She should have stayed in bed
A research study I did whilst being in my master of Visual arts at LUCA School of Art.
Tarot editions
78 blank tarot cards where sent to 78 artists based in belgium. Each card was carefully selected according to the meaning, the pictorial image of the card and the similarities with the specific artist’s practice.
I designed ‘Bekers Vier’ (Translated: Four of Cups)
Four of Cups is essentially a friendly warning that you are looking negatively at the world and this holds you back from achieving everything you need. it’s about annoyance, disappointment, or someone who is offended. For relationships, the card indicates the state of being stubborn in apathy, lack of initiative and discontent. For work, Four of Cups represents the lack of motivation, boredom and disappointment.
2021.
Through flying kites and unresolved endings’
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This bilboard illustration was made for ‘Zijspoor’ a project in the framework of the 5th Sorry, Not Sorry festival (18th & 19th May 2024), organised in Moscou-Vogelhoek (Ghent).
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‘Zijspoor’ is an ongoing exhibition on a commercial bilboard, curated by local artists Lukas Verstraete and Martha Vershaffel. Every other two months a selected artist will create a new image, inspired by the neighbourhood of Moscou-Vogelhoek.
Watou ‘Talk of the town
Do you recognize that feeling? Of being homesick for a place or a time you never knew? An indescribable longing for something you cannot name? This phenomenon is called ‘anemoia’. Cecile Broekaert’s work is steeped in it. Her small-scale paintings, often postcard-sized, depict seemingly everyday events and figures. UNder many layers of oil paint, acrylic and water colours, there are monotype prints or engravings to be discovered. Broekaert scratches away the surface, carving into her work, revealing what is ‘behind the wallpaper’. The characters she depicts are anonymous and lonely. They do not sleep, but watch. The visitor in turn watches them, as a voyeur. Who is peeping at whom? What preceded this scene? And what type of world lies on the other side of your window sill?
Sounddesign by Ewoud Vermote