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VEERLE BECKERS (1976, Belgium)
Despite its immediacy, Beckers’s work is not photographic. It doesn’t want to ‘tie things down’ irrefutably. Beckers’s brush technique is not used to create a meticulously realistic account of things. Consciously not, for Beckers has all the technical skill to do so if she wishes. The ab- straction in her work, its fundamental two-dimensional nature, her quest for clear often recog- nisable or even universal forms or figures: it all seems to be rooted in a deeper wish to develop a simple understandable language. Her own language, a language that has the right to …