About

Veerle Beckers searches for a very strong sense of immediacy in her images. Her gaze is never detached or objectifying. She often creates fragile closeups of everyday or emblematic affairs. Her work resonates with a huge fascination for capturing the impermanence, the temporariness of things, efforts to hold on to them as if they were cherished memories.

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 …