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Michiko Van de Velde

Michiko Van de Velde

Michiko Van de Velde (Brasschaat, 1994) is a Belgian-Japanese artist who lives and works in Brussels. Her work is dedicated to sunlight, which has fascinated her since childhood and is an ever-present and guiding companion. She feels an aesthetic, poetic and dynamic bond with light and, as such, is interested in the natural phenomena to which it is linked, such as infinity and mortality. "The apparitions of light that we observe, tell the story of the journey of each ray of light to our planet", explains the artist. Through site-specific installations, paintings and videos, she attempts to reproduce the infinite forms, colours and intensities of this impalpable, vital energy before they escape. In Japan, there are no less than 158 words to describe light, which is testament to the poetic and metaphysical relationship of human beings to this spatio-temporal phenomenon.

In today's world of mass production, the artist tries to rediscover a more measured and intimate relationship with light. At the Vanderborght space, Michiko replicated the traces of light on the ground on the day of the summer solstice using golden paint to interact with the viewer’s vantage point. It is her intention to immortalise, or at least prolong, the beauty of such fleeting encounters with light, which is often disregarded.

Michiko reminds us of her power over nature, with an installation of ceramic leaves from a tree, the Ginkgo Biloba, which survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Using the Japanese technique of kintsugi, Michiko repaired the broken leaves with gold, whose scars reference the catastrophe and symbolise nature's resistance to human action. For the artist, the universal theme of light also signifies the convergence of her two cultures, Belgian and Japanese.

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