Griet Dobbels ‘Straight Line Attempt’ Posture Editions 2023) and Xavier Hufkens

2023) and Xavier Hufkens

or when travelling between international borders

where the road seems to become one with life

Kathleen Weyts

Griet Dobbels ‘Straight Line Attempt’ Posture Editions 2023) and Xavier HufkensThis books is a leporello of 20 leaves, length 4,2 m Griet Dobbels (b. 1964) is a visual artist. Key concepts in her work are: the dialectic between grandeur and insignificance, transience and timelessness, nature and culture, beauty and horror, safety and danger, chaos and control, universality and individuality. Formally, these subjects translate into various media: drawings, video installations, sculptures and happenings. Dobbels explores