Smoking Girl

Once again I find myself rescheduling my desires is a work by the Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde (Louvain, Belgium, 1983). On the border between reality and imagination, his large-scale charcoal drawings combine humour, observation, and copious doses of existential angst. His “fictional autobiographies” introduce the viewer into scenes of fragmented narratives, cinematic frames of an apparently larger story in which the artist himself is continually redirected and reinvented as the protagonist. The large-scale works allow him to “sculpt the charcoal with his fingers and palms”, creating an enveloping, almost three-dimensional effect.