About

Antoinette d’Ansembourg

“I draw and make sculptures because I like to avoid words. My irrepressible need to build with clay, hempcrete, industrial objetcs, textile and even plasticine is more telling. These ensembles of shapes are like pawns in a large, modular game with an infinit number of possiblities. They evoke many different things, but pinning them down is more problematic; are they sexual? Vegetal? Animal? I aim to encourage this ambiguity, and hope to provoke curiosity, discomfort, sometimes disgust. What ultimately guides my work, however, is representing nature, parts of our …