© Cecile Broekaert – Forget Me Not

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In 2020 Cecile graduated in liberal arts at LUCA School Of Arts in Ghent. She finished a masters degree about: “How imagery can aect (the feeling of) solitude”. A research that forms a common theme throughout her work.

Cecile’s works consist of a vast collection of images that she keeps aligned in boxes like family pictures. Fragments that can be regrouped in series or into typologies: landscapes, portraits, objects, plants, nightscapes,…

With their appealing colors, they might look innocent at first sight ; pretty pictures, details of decorative objects. But like make-up or masks, that’s only a façade, hiding an underlying feeling of melancholy or nostalgia for a time or place you’ve never known.

A monotype print or an engraving sometimes hide under the layers of paint of these cinematographic nocturnal views. Cecile covers up and scratches the surface, carving shapes into the images. Each faceless character becomes a palimpsest, the accumulation of dierent stories into a blurry memory.