English:Anne Daems (Q85649)

Anne Daems makes photographs, drawings, videos and installations. By means of precise observations she navigates through our complex world, focusing on details of everyday life. Actions and events that are seemingly unimportant at first glance are placed in the foreground and meticulously unravelled. All details are equally valid and meaningful, revealing a complete microcosm about a particular subject or persona. The wondrous nature of these works lies precisely in the non-spectacular aspect, nothing and yet everything is equally meaningful and mysterious.

In Garden Room, her first solo exhibition at Bozar, she engages in a dialogue with Victor Horta's architecture and creates an environmental installation in which she explores her own garden utopia, a wobbly idyll full of ambiguity. A contemporary hortus conclusus for introspection, for connection with nature in the rhythm and rituals of everyday life. More than simply touching on nature, her work is a reflection on the world and how the artist relates to it, where humor and relativity can always sneak in.