Opening 21.06.26, 15h at IKOB (BE)
A coastal landscape with a blue sky on the horizon—algae in the water and clusters of mollusks propagating on a rocky shore; a woman dressed in pink floating in the water with her face down, her limbs spread out like those of a starfish, hands holding on to a rock. The image recalls Shakespeare’s Ophelia, or rather the well-known painting of the same name (1851–2) by John Everett Millais, in which the young noblewoman is floating in a stream. In the painting, Ophelia is still alive, but we know that her clothes, heavy with water, are beginning to drag her down.
