June Residency Jolien Naeyaert

Open Doors Sunday 3 July 2022 / 14:00 - 18:00

@jolien_naeyaert
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Jolien Naeyaert

The Green Corridor welcomes Jolien Naeyaert
as a first resident on 3 July, patron day of architects and contractors. An engineer architect, and visual artist, she researches alternative ways of exploring and representing architectural places. Focussing on different media, she looks for ways to approach places actively. The act of experience, of really being at a particular place and discovering - through the presence of your whole body - what lives at that specific place, is essential for her work.

“Drawing has a featherlike quality. Sometimes you think of something, and it is so light, so slight, that you don’t have time to make a note in your diary. Everything is fl eeting, but your drawing will serve as a reminder; otherwise, it is forgotten.” Louise Bourgeois
A quote that came up in a conversation between Jolien Naeyaert and Michelle Sáenz Burrola.

Jolien Naeyaert researches alternative ways of exploring and representing architectural places. Focussing on different media, she looks for ways to actively approach places. The act of experience, of really being at a particular place and discovering - through the presence of your whole body - what lives at that specific place, is essential for her work. In 2015 she built up her own' research centre' in a caravan and decided to wander around Belgium, questioning the notion of 'landscape'. This practice has evolved increasingly into a practice of dialogue, intimacy and process-based working. From December 2015 to May 2022, Jolien Naeyaert worked at Robbrecht en Daem architecten in Ghent. In 2018, she started writing articles for Belgian architecture magazine A-plus, and in 2020 she began teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, Sint Lucas Brussels. Together with cineast/architect Anne Philippe, she founded the collective 'desespiegles'. Currently, she lives in Brussels and has a studio at Level Five Brussels.