Leen Voet

In her series of paintings, installations and drawings, Leen Voet (°1971) incorporates triggers from cultural, personal and historical contexts with a subtle sense of humour. From a voyeuristic perspective on life, painting and artistry, Voet reflects on the stereotypical and local, on the autonomy of the individual, and on origin and provenance.

In the solo exhibition Alda & Armand, Leen Voet presents a new series of oil paintings on canvas in large format. The series is based on a personal memory of an intimate transaction. Several years ago, Voet was given four screen-printed kitchen towels by her father, which the family itself had received during a visit to a local food fair in the 1980s. Her father gave them to her on the condition that she make paintings from the towels. Leen took this commission to heart: she adapted and enlarged the four print motifs for canvas. The resulting series consists of three exact reproductions and four freer variations. In the CIAP building, the works were integrated into the existing window frames as an installation. Thus, the work interacts with the neo-Medieval allusive portraits by the Limburg painter Jos Damien.

Leen Voet studied painting at Sint-Lukas in Brussels and KASK Ghent. Her solo work has been exhibited at Baronian Xippas (Brussels), NYLO-Living Art Museum (Reykjavik), Netwerk Aalst, and Kunstbunker Forum für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Nürnberg), among others. Her work has also been included in many group exhibitions in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and the US.