The Road to Beauty
by Chloé Op de Beeck
synopsis
With The Road to Beauty (work title) Chloé Op de Beeck explores what is lost after the amputation of her mother’s breast. Through intimate conversations with her mother and with the surgeon who reshaped her body, the work examines how bodies are represented, archived, and imagined, creating a poetic and tactile reflection on presence, absence, and transformation.
biography
Chloé Op de Beeck’s practice consists of film, photography and sculptural objects. She registers moments and situations, to present them in a spatial context, building video installations in which cinematic elements are deconstructed and unfold as fragments in an exhibition space.
After completing a Master’s degree in Photography and a Master’s degree in Film Studies and Visual Culture, she was artist-in-residence at Cité des Arts in Paris and De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. In 2017-18, she did a postgraduate at HISK (Ghent). Her work has been shown at IKOB, De Garage, STUK, SMAK, and abroad at Shuttle 19, Paris (France), Cabane B, Bern (Switzerland), NART, Narva (Estonia), to name a few only.