Galerie Michael Janssen is pleased to announce its second exhibition by Belgian artist Lili Dujourie (b. 1941). Dujourie’s work includes video, collages, sculptures, installations and photography.
Dujourie was one of the few female artists experimenting with video in late 1960’s and 1970’s and her pioneering videos are radical explorations of the then new medium. Since the 1980’s she has been making sculptures and it remains her predominant art form today. Her sculptures are often executed in techniques and materials that resonate with many centuries of tradition, such as draped velvet, marble intarsia, lead or ceramics.
She is continuously concerned with contemporary reinterpretations of themes, forms and gestures from art history, which is one reason why her many-faceted but dense and precisely articulated oeuvre is so visually and intellectually rewarding. In her articulation of minimalism and conceptual ideas, her works draw questions on the relation between matter and subject and how this relates to perception.
Her work has been presented at the P.S.1 in New York, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, at the Documenta 12, at the 2010 Sharjah Biennial and at the 2008 Gwandju Biennal. In 2005 a major exhibition (curated by Lynne Cooke) at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels was dedicated to her work.
