DS 14XXL 2020
Wouter Hoste BE
ceramics
gecreëerd voor Kleureyck
This work is part of a series of sculptures that are based on human hair. But what do you actually see underneath that hair? Something organic? A robot? A goddess – the DS (‘déesse’) from the title? Wouter Hoste has made this work specially for Kleureyck. It is partly inspired by the use of gold in the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. The pearl grey is a reference to the classical sculptures and the architectural elements on the panel. The name is also an allusion to ‘deesis’ – the way in which Christ, Mary, and John the Baptist are depicted in the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb.