Based in Ghent Belgium, Stien Bekaert communicates throughout an assembly of mixed media that owes as much to the practice of found imagery and photography as it does to printmaking. A visual concept of decomposing an image takes place in her work. The aspect of layering and new significations, the combination with printmaking ensures that manual and high tech processes are evenly matched. 

Sofie Crabbé: “Captivated by handicraft, Bekaert experiments with various techniques. She makes etchings, lithographs and monotypes, as well as riso, offset and transfer prints. Through manipulations – such as crops, transformations and blowups – Stien Bekaert deconstructs and creates distance. The compositions, the choice of materials and the meticulous assembling into a new narrative, no detail remains untouched. The main objective is to give the viewer a poetic viewing experience. At times lyrical and dreamy, at others uncanny or disquieting. Always ambiguous and permeated with an unfulfillable desire, true significations disappear.”