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In her sculptures and installations, Nadia Naveau lets personal and collective memories interact in a game of images, symbols, texture, colour, scale, and presentation. The results are works resembling assemblages, that tickle many fancies and open even more stories. Throughout her career, the artist engages in a playful conversation with her own work.
Her sculptures are typically meeting point of very whimsical elements and stylized, abstracted parts. Every sculpture in part originates from the artist’s enormous collection of photos, photocopies, newspaper and magazine clippings, fragments from thrift shop books on the one hand, and in her instinctive inspiration by motifs and memories ranging from remnants of ancient Greece to a childhood Disney cartoon on the other hand. Her work has been described as “Bernini meets The Simpsons;” a catchy phrase that can never fully cover the intricate thoughts that shape her sculptures and her oeuvre, but does translate the relative absurdity and…
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Biography
In her sculptures and installations, Nadia Naveau lets personal and collective memories interact in a game of images, symbols, texture, colour, scale, and presentation. The results are works resembling assemblages, that tickle many fancies and open even more stories. Throughout her career, the artist engages in a playful conversation with her own work.
Her sculptures are typically meeting point of very whimsical elements and stylized, abstracted parts. Every sculpture in part originates from the artist’s enormous collection of photos, photocopies, newspaper and magazine clippings, fragments from thrift shop books on the one hand, and in her instinctive inspiration by motifs and memories ranging from remnants of ancient Greece to a childhood Disney cartoon on the other hand. Her work has been described as “Bernini meets The Simpsons;” a catchy phrase that can never fully cover the intricate thoughts that shape her sculptures and her oeuvre, but does translate the relative absurdity and…
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