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Louise Verstraete

(c) Kaatje Verschoren

Louise Verstraete is a visual artist and textile designer whose multidisciplinary approach spans graphics, scenography, and textiles. A LUCA School of Arts graduate, she has participated in events like FOMU Antwerp and Dutch Design Week. Her work, exhibited in public spaces, explores the intersection of photography, urban scenography, and textiles. Translating urban imagery into jacquard-woven textiles, she merges pixels and fibers, emphasizing weaving as an expressive act. Her “Island of Images” archives daily life, challenging conventions of space, material, and perception. Inspired by public spaces, scenography, and contemporary art, Louise redefines the boundaries between art and design, creating an infinite, evolving dialogue.

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Island of Images

Louise's project features a series of textile pieces woven on industrial Jacquard looms, translating images from her archive. Drawing inspiration from a "textile gaze," these images reveal how urban scenographies—patterns and structures in our built environment—shape our daily social interactions and movements. Striking a balance between the rigidity of concrete city architecture and the fluidity of temporary scenography, her work reflects the continuous process of reshaping space, exploring the interplay between fiction and reality, public and private space, as well as pixels and textile codes.