Catarina van Eetvelde: How to give?

Around me and in me are passages of thousands of years of kinship being, life next to life on top of life. All delicate of ageing, they are withered, passed along: knowledges of courages made gentle. There is a place inside of me from where I work, it is older than a city. I hold a tread that is a trillion times carried before me. I stand one hand outstretched, then both arms wide. One hand remembers the other is not yet, the body knows. And all that is, it is protected, because it is capable of being touched.
I relate of that affection.

Catarina van Eetvelde (b.1967 in Gent, B) defines herself through the activity of drawing. For her, drawing is an attitude and a way to think and work through ever evolving ideas not bound exclusively to the medium of paper. Throughout her work, drawing takes the form of animations, vector graphics, and stitches on fabric, but also writing and delicate sculptural arrangements that often include cables and wires. The lines of thoughts she creates with these compound methods of drawing are a way to relate to the world by bridging the rational and the irrational, the artistic and the scientific. The artist lives and works in Paris.