Sophie Kuijken's "fabricated" portraits arrive at Galerie Nathalie Obadia

Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting in Paris a solo exhibition devoted to Belgian artist Sophie Kuijken. This exhibition brings together a dozen of her recent paintings, shown at a major retrospective of her work tracing the history of a meticulous and eloquent artistic practice. Drawn to ancient and modern art from a very young age, Sophie Kuijken has sought to develop a unique body of work, free from any form of imitation. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (KASK), she made the radical decision to extricate herself from the art world to work hidden away in her studio for more than twenty years. This intentional retreat also involved staying away from exhibitions, specialist reviews and what was happening in the art world, with a view to preserving the autonomy and integrity of her pictorial language. Her work was revealed to the public in 2011 at a solo exhibition held at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens,