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The Sentimental Jewellery of Louise-Marie d’Orléans: An Artistic Reactivation of Material Memories

Over the past few years, jewelry artist and art historian Charlotte Vanhoubroeck investigated the lost sentimental jewelry of Louise-Marie d’Orléans, first queen of Belgium (1812–1850), with the support of the Research Foundation Flanders. These jewelry pieces were worn to preserve memories, and thus once enclosed fragments of Louise’s intimate world. Based on (art) historical research […]

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Pilosities

Pilosities brings together three artists whose works are similar in their choice and use of raw materials: Human hair, feathers, and furs. In Haptic stones, Lore Langendries wishes to arouse curiosity by displaying hairs—fine imagery and a visual illusion. Pieces look like solid rocks rounded off by the action of nature but they feel like

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