The Belgian artist Jacqueline Mesmaeker’s (Brussels, BE, 1929–2023) extraordinary oeuvre combines a poetic sensibility with conceptual thinking. Her output comprises sculptures and sculptural interventions as well as paintings and drawings, photographs, films and videos, and spoken and written language. One defining feature of her work is an astute awareness of the existential processes of remembering and forgetting and the psychological, political, and aesthetic significance of the subtl...
