Aline Thomassen | Solo

Aline Thomassen is a contemporary artist, living and working between The Netherlands and Morocco. Her work is renown for her meters-large paintings and drawings in watercolor with lyrical and ferocious depictions of nude women. Women’s bodies and animal, plant- or interior organ motifs flow together to create an almost cosmic link with a blend of mysterious visual elements, that may or may not be recognizable.

Inspired by various cultural and psychological realities displayed in society, we can regard the female nudes as the expression of the psychological landscape, representing strong and unspeakable feelings.

The penetrating and uneasy images that Thomassen presents refuse to reveal themselves completely. She continuously upsets our patterns of expectation and makes us confront the images of women that we have formed from the media and art history. Her militant women live their own lives, averse to our priori assumptions.