Shirley Villavicencio Pizango ‘Dark Empathy’

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Shirley Villavicencio Pizango ‘Dark Empathy’Shirley Villavicencio Pizango (b. 1988, Lima) is a Ghent based artist with Peruvian roots. The cross fertilization between her childhood in the Amazon jungle and Lima on the one hand, and her life in Belgium on the other, fundamentally characterizes her work. Her young oeuvre consists of still lifes with terracotta vases, fruits or plants and decorative, colourful backgrounds. She also paints scenes for which mostly friends or family sit as models.

The project is funded by the HOGENT Research Fund for the Arts

Barbara De Coninck writes a text to accompany the drawings and frames them in art history

Her works deal with animality and the core of her practice interrogates our relationship to power structures

such as the landscape and the still life

African masks and folklore

” From: ‘Portrait of the Artist’

Philippe Van Snick

a funny dialogue developed

In the course of six years

is certainly one of the themes addressed in ‘Carpet Beater Carpet’

winner of the Confituur book prize for her recent novel ‘Ik ga naar de schapen’

Verwée engages the viewer in a spatial and temporal experience