Anthropoides Paradiseus

Isabelle Evertse presents Anthropoides paradiseus as a reflection on her roots and origins, while simultaneously registering it in a universal dimension. The fact that she hides the faces can result in a certain reserve of the artist and her will to protect her close ones from this autobiographic work. But this intervention, associated with a deliberate choice of ordinary scenes or traces of the everyday also allows the viewers to identify themselves. This research of openness confirms...
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Isabelle Evertse presents Anthropoides paradiseus as a reflection on her roots and origins, while simultaneously registering it in a universal dimension. The fact that she hides the faces can result in a certain reserve of the artist and her will to protect her close ones from this autobiographic work. But this intervention, associated with a deliberate choice of ordinary scenes or traces of the everyday also allows the viewers to identify themselves. This research of openness confirms itself with a third category of allegoric images. A deserted landscape, a tortured and entangled countryside, bring to mind a long solitary crossing. Other motifs like the pomegranate, a sacred fruit since the Antiquity, symbol of life and death, or an aragonite mine, known for being the stone of consolation but also the symbol of endurance and hope, refer to more general transitory states of existence. In this delicate oeuvre, Isabelle Evertse succeeds in combining past and present, and even builds the future. Whilst evoking her personal journey, she brings out the difficulty of facing our own history and the fragile characteristics of this construction process.