MARLIES DAVANS

Marlies Davans (°1977) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.

She had a degree in Sculpture at the St-Lucas School of Arts, and then she moved to Antwerp and had a four year course of Jewellery Making. After studying she began making small sculptures that hover between life and death, and look like a kind of near-beings. Hairy objects, existing of alienating fabrics, tempt the viewer till the verge of the dislike; they move you to the dilemma between caressing and avoiding…

Marlies also made different installations where she sewed death volumes onto plants so they could have a taste of the illusionary life as parasites holding on a living organism. The photographing of the work is a quite important part of the whole process and often the picture stands on its own as a work of art.

Galerie A8
Abrahamstraat 8
9000 Gent
België

0477/689438
marliesdavans@yahoo.com