Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven: NOTHING MORE NATURAL

As part of the Instantanés group exhibition, the Frac des Pays de la Loire has invited Belgian artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven to take over the Mario Toran room.

Since the mid-1970s Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has developed an interdisciplinary work involving drawing, texts, sound, video and computer-generated images. From one exhibition to another, these various media join forces in installations that combine and "recontextualise" earlier and more recent pieces. This evolutional logic is a fair indicator of the artist's fascination for systems and structures.

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has always paid particular heed to the omnipresence of images of women in the media. Some of her works, such as the Head Nurses project, use imagery taken from "soft" pornography in order to deconstruct stereotypes linked to notions of power and sexuality. More generally speaking, her lines of thought extend to the fields of art, science and politics.

Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
NOTHING MORE NATURAL