[EN] Marie Julia Bollansée, multi-media artist, was born in Belgium (1960) and studied sculpture. Marie Julia Bollansée’s oeuvre is a stream of sculptures, performances, spatial installations, videos, photographs and publications that express the power of life. In precise aesthetic forms, she exposes underlying driving forces in society. Sculpture plays a significant role in this, but so does the ritual presence of the artist, who transmits information like a medium.
Marie Julia Bollansée defined a blue that she calls a sign of our times: ‘Tarpaulin blue’. Blue tarpaulins, which she noticed in Mumbai, she gives meaning to. As a universal emergency solution and primary shelter, they simultaneously depict man’s vulnerability and self-reliance in today’s world.
The performances ‘to the Absent Audience’ are the result of solitary, mental journeys Marie Julia Bollansée makes in her studio. She films them herself and shares them via the internet. In BWA, a selection from the past 14 years will be shown on the big screen.
But regularly Bollansée also lets spectators participate in her performances. She recently created performances in Japan, Koga City Museum of History (2023) and Tokyo 3331ArtsChiyoda (2019), S.M.A.K. Ghent (2021 and 2019), Nepal, Kathmandu Triennale (2017) and MuHKA Antwerp (2016), among others.
Marie Julia Bollansée
Discover her artwork: https://www.mariejuliabollansee.be/