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Katrien de Blauwer’s Femmes Coupées exemplifies the artist’s distinct methodology of reclaiming and transforming mid-century print media into intimate psychological portraits. Working primarily with vintage magazines and periodicals from the 1950s and 1960s, de Blauwer acts as both a conservator and an iconoclast, cutting, reassembling, and overpainting discarded photographic fragments to construct new narratives.
The thematic core of the work explores fragmentation, identity, and the quiet psychological interiors of the female experience. By physically excising, cropping, and decontextualizing figures, often removing facial features or isolating gestures, de Blauwer strips away the commercial or illustrative intent of the original source material. The resulting compositions transform ephemeral press imagery into poignant studies of introspection, vulnerability, and silence, positioning the female body not as an object of display, but as a site of psychological interiority.
Katrien de Blauwer’s Femmes Coupées exemplifies the artist’s distinct methodology of reclaiming and transforming mid-century print media into intimate psychological portraits. Working primarily with vintage magazines and periodicals from the 1950s and 1960s, de Blauwer acts as both a conservator and an iconoclast, cutting, reassembling, and overpainting discarded photographic fragments to construct new narratives.
The thematic core of the work explores fragmentation, identity, and the quiet psychological interiors of the female experience. By physically excising, cropping, and decontextualizing figures, often removing facial features or isolating gestures, de Blauwer strips away the commercial or illustrative intent of the original source material. The resulting compositions transform ephemeral press imagery into poignant studies of introspection, vulnerability, and silence, positioning the female body not as an object of display, but as a site of psychological interiority.
