“Hatching Between Two Trees, a solo exhibition by Belgian artist Sam Druant. Rooted in alternative narratives and mystical thinking, Druant reimagines storytelling and knowledge-sharing through a deeply material and participatory approach.
Textiles serve as the foundation of Druant’s work, carrying the historical weight of domesticity and femininity while subverting common associations. Embracing their European historical ties to the domestic sphere, she transforms yarn and fabric into intricate, vividly colored tapestries interwoven with prose and poetry. The layered narratives created through fabric and linguistics present alternative worlds. One where domestic craft becomes a site of resistance, a modem of memory and possibility. Here, conceptual rigor meets craft and elicits societal critique through the medium of textiles.
In Hatching Between Two Trees, Druant extends her practice into public engagement, incorporating a window installation that invites the audience into the work itself. These encounters cultivate a space for relational aesthetics and shared knowledge, fostering dialogue around feminist storytelling and communal world-building. Drawing inspiration from thinkers like Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and Jennifer Bloomer’s The Hatchery, Druant’s work challenges linear histories and embraces a more fluid, collective form of meaning-making.”
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