PUBERTY
De Vos’s comprehensive body of work encompasses emotive and evocative elements within her exploration of present and predetermined philosophies of beauty and gender within spatial, cultural, and capitalist modes of being, represented through various renditions of figures and portraiture in delicate and deliberate artistic expressions. The featured works further include her current exploration of abstraction where she brings together varied visual elements, layering, and combining them in her exploration of the exertion of predetermined cultural practices on the human body during puberty.
De Vos inquisitively explores nuanced rites of passage and their effect on the human body physically, collectively, emotionally, and psychologically. The exhibition reveals the remarkable depth of De Vos’s thoughts that she has trouble relaying verbally but renders visually. Using radiant dark backgrounds, distinguished segments of the human body and an ingenious engagement with texture, hues and enticing, detailed pattern, De Vos undertakes a provocative and stimulating showcase that manifests as a moment of thought-provoking reflection in attempts of comprehending the existence or absence of a superior philosophical truth regarding the human body.
Seeds of our nation
Copper and blow torch on board
2021
58 x 46 x 12 cm
Against the grains
Acrylic, copper and blow torch on board
2021
70 x 66 x 8 cm
Knock knock, whose there?……Culture!
Ink, copper, staples, steel wool and blow torch on board
2021
90 x 95 x 12 cm
Scrutiny of a woman
Ink, copper and pot scourer on board
2021
59 x 51 x 12 cm
Puberty I
Ink, staples, copper, blow torch and steel wool on board
2020
70 x 60 x 23 cm
Unheard pockets of prayers
Ink, copper and steel wool on board
2021
59 x 51 x 12 cm
Canal of our generations
Ink, copper, staples and blow torch on board
2021
48 x 49 x 10 cm
Fountain of Wisdom
Ink, copper, staples, steel wool and blow torch on board
2021
42 x 36 x 12 cm
Rites of passage
Ink, copper, staples and blow torch on board
2021
46 x 43 x 12 cm
Adult bible, Chapter 5, Verse 20
Ink, copper, steel wool and blow torch on board
2021
60 x 36 x 16 cm
Pleasures of hierarchy
Ink, copper, steel wool and blow torch on board
2021
150 x 60 x 5 cm