Selected collections
and exhibition venues:
Open Air Museum, Fourneau Saint-Michel, Belgium; Contemporary Center of Belgian Art, Luxembourg; Cultural Centre, Wanze, Belgium; Galerie Art'bre, Arbre, Belgium; Goalabré Ana, Osenat, Fontainebleau, France (Art Ecological and Eco-Design); Museum of the Ourthe-Amblève Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium (Approaches Plant); Casa de la Cultura Famenne-Ardenne, Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium (Hands of Women); House of Crafts, Liège, Belgium (Regards de femmes); World Crafts Council--Belgium Francophone Community, Mons, Belgium (Dialogues; Who Does What; Applied Arts and Design Company).

Statement:
Create links
To connect things is my foundation: hard and soft, old and new, valuable and trivial, conscious and unconscious, human and plant.
With hindsight, I realize that I develop in my work comes from this question: how to get the status of object state issue? In attempting to forge links maybe.

Traditional knowledge
Wickerwork, timber size and assembly are my doors. Far from mastering their ancestral know-how, I need to go through them. They help me, they inspire me and give me the impetus to find my own solutions. Then they might be taxed as obsolete, they convey a certain freedom. Based on oral

Speaking of living
Wood and wicker weaving gave me a boost for many years. However, the plant is not about me. It is a means among others, such as the multitude of flexible materials available around us. But this way is not trivial. It connects me to that man since he is on earth, shaping with his hands what he needs from what he sees around him. What matters to me is to talk about what is alive. The plant is part of living as well as the desire, the human body, intuitions, a certain sauvageté...

Public space / private space
Either during an intervention in a public place or in my studio work, I try to do is to listen. Listening to a landscape, a place, people who pass, a trace, an intuition, something I perceive as alive in me or outside me. Each sculpture each installation or want to talk about this link, this thread, this way of life.

Stéphanie Jacques
2012