MARUANI MERCIER introduces Darkening Dusk, the first solo exhibition of South African artist Kate Gottgens at their Knokke gallery. Known for her haunting and dreamlike compositions, Gottgens captures a state of liminality, representing transition much like the fading dusk. Her creations stem from sourced images—anonymous photographs and a plethora of digital fragments—reconstructed into landscapes that blur boundaries between body and nature. Water serves as a recurrent motif, reflecting unsettling colors that enhance tension. Ultimately, Gottgens critiques the seductive nature of nostalgia, exposing the complexities behind idealized memories.
Gottgens builds her work from a variety of sourced imagery-anonymous snapshots found at flea markets, family vacation photos, or fragments retrieved from the vast digital archive of the internet.
Through this interplay, Gottgens explores the seductive yet deceptive nature of nostalgia, exposing the underbelly of these idealized memories of the past.
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