peggy wauters: recomposed
May 7 - June 4, 2022
Press Release
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Ro2 Art is proud to present the gallery’s third solo exhibition with Belgian artist, Peggy Wauters, titled Recomposed. The exhibition will open May 7, continuing through June 4, 2022, with an opening reception held at Ro2 Art in The Cedars, located at 1501 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX, 75215 from 7-10PM.
For Recomposed, Peggy Wauters mines magazines, brochures and various documents to find imagery, from fragments of human faces to animals and architecture, which are disambiguated from their original, for use as devices in her new "recomposed" paintings and prints. By reworking these objects, she brings new perspective and energy to them, while creating imagined realities. In her dense new paintings, the world seems to be turned upside-down, full of humanoid creatures and strange landscapes. In a series of accompanying prints, the artist combines attributes of various people in order to create new identities. |
artist statement
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Recomposed explores images in magazines, documentation and brochures that already have a destination or meaning. Cutting and pasting these ideas brings a new perspective and gives the objects a new vibe. I created humanoid forms that bespeak extreme experience. From physical mutation and disintegration to the evocation of profound psychological states. My drawings, paintings, and sculptures are an art of provocation and contemplation. Drawing inspiration from the symbolic status of society's others, such as prisoners, orphans and the disabled. Employing a personal interpretation of codes and conventions that signify human frailty and folly. Historically resonant narratives, allegories and allusions are explored to produce a particular vision of basic human fears and feelings for the contemporary climate. A vision, it needs to be said, shot through with an almost perverse sense of humor.
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about the artist
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Peggy Wauters is a Belgian visual artist. She makes paintings, photo collages, sculptures and ceramics. She studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, among others. Wauters had solo exhibitions in, among others, Bangkok and Dubai (both 2008), in Ghent (2010, 2013, 2015) and in Dallas (2015). In 2015, a book about her work was published, entitled The Big Escape. Since 2020, Wauters has had her studio in an old industrial building in Aalst.
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