Palatine Demoen Belgium, b. 1999

Palatine Demoen was born in Ghent in 1999 and obtained her master’s degree in painting at Luca School of Arts. In September 2023 she presented her work at the Wunderwall. Her work draws inspiration from a continuously evolving personal archive shaped by her memories as well as by her aesthetic eye, referring to the way she sees things. This selection happens intuitively and can carry either many meanings or none at all. Small and large memories, forms and objects from her recent and more distant past are given a place within this archive. She derives symbols from it, allowing tactile objects such as cassette tapes or record sleeves, and fragments of drawn visual impressions of these, to recur in her work through the use of a sampling technique.

Images and words are intuitively connected to one another through the medium of painting. Her practice moves between a sensitive, intuitive way of working and moments that originate from conceptual research. Both approaches are intrinsic to her practice and can be either coincidental or controlled. Her paintings exhibit a formal tension that is often subtly united with the emotional. The visual and the emotional perform constantly shifting motions within the work, leaving it to the viewer to determine which meanings emerge from this peculiar choreography.