QUATRE QUARTS — Shay Amitai, Nina Versporten, Jonas Van der Haegen & Tara Roelens

Name: QUATRE QUARTS — Shay Amitai, Nina Versporten, Jonas Van der Haegen & Tara Roelens
Start: 2024-11-22T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-22T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Coupure Rechts 308, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Schedule

Fri Nov 22 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Coupure Rechts 308, 9000 Ghent, Belgium | Gent, OV

Quatre Quarts is an exhibition born from the decade-long friendship of Shay Amitai, Nina Versporten, Jonas Van der Haegen and Tara Roelens. United by their shared artistic journeys, the four lifelong friends come together to celebrate this milestone with a collaborative showcase.

Fri, November 22 — 19:00 to 22:00
Sat, November 23 — 12:00 to 22:00
Sun, November 24 — 12:00 to 18:00
Coupure Rechts 308, 9000 Ghent

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𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢 (1996)
instagram.com/shayamitai
Shay Amitai is a visual artist.
Her work centers around family, a sense of absence of a subject or an object and the stretching distance between loved ones.
She uses elements of her personal life as a form of roots to narrate encompassing stories.
Amitai is working in a playful way about sensitive and emotional topics. She experiments with different ways of telling stories as in books and installations. Her photographic work is recognizable by her use of bright colors combined with tenderly black and white images, text, textile, collage and textures.

𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧 (1996)
instagram.com/nina.versporten
Nina Versporten is inspired by movement, animals, still lifes, and the human body. Starting from sketches, she translates these subjects into paintings, where repetition and variation play a central role. She combines the gracefulness of dance with playfulness, exploring how bodies and shapes relate to one another.

𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧 (1996)
Jonas Van der Haegen's artistic practice centers around a deep exploration of emotional and aesthetic complexity. His work is characterized by a meticulous curation of visual elements, often delving into themes such as intimacy, melancholy, and the nuances of human physicality. By using color and form as vehicles for expression, Jonas creates an immersive experience that transcends the purely visual, inviting viewers into a contemplative space that resonates with emotional depth.
His approach to color, akin to the work of Mark Rothko, goes beyond surface aesthetics, drawing the audience into a metaphysical dialogue with the themes of his work. The chromatic interplay within his pieces challenges viewers to engage in a personal reflection, where each shade and contrast holds potential meaning. Additionally, the publication of his work in book form provides another layer of interpretation, offering space for further analysis and contextualization of the sensual and transcendent aspects of his art.

𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐑𝐨𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐬 (1997)
Tara Roelens' work centers on memories and nostalgia, using photography and culinary elements to breathe life into recollections. She delves into how the past can be reawakened, capturing the ephemeral nature of memory and transforming it into something tangible and vivid.
Incorporating archival themes and materials, Roelens enriches her exploration by grounding her work in layers of the past, adding depth to her pursuit of reliving and preserving moments otherwise lost to time.