M HKA Ensembles

° 1989

Born in Belgium, lives in Antwerp (Belgium).

Working reflexively on how the art system likes to construct and foreground the biography of artists in relation to their artworks, Liesbeth Doms uses this as the impetus for her artistic practice. The subjects of persona, biography and artistic genealogy are pointless burdens that Doms playfully and humorously turns into conceptually useful veils for herself. Biographies tend to be particularly emphasised for ‘young’ artists as well as those from the non-western world, as there is a desire to locate them socio-culturally as individuals, as well as within an art historical lineage. Doms constructs different means and situations for displaying temporary biographies to hide behind that are at once credible alternatives and even seductive, yet border on the absurd. (NH)