This book offers an in-depth introduction to the drawings of Chris Meulemans, situating her practice within the legacy of modernist collage while articulating its renewed relevance today. Guided by an intuitive, material-focused approach, Meulemans creates works that defy finality and invite prolonged, immersive attention.
Recurring plant motifs function not as symbols but as structural anchors, allowing the artist to probe relationships between image and object, nature and culture, surface and space. The drawings operate as autonomous works—open, layered, and irreducible to a single interpretation—making them particularly compelling within exhibition contexts that value material presence and conceptual precision.
This book captures the immediacy and intimacy of her work, a visual poetry that asks us not to master, but to wander, linger, and discover.
This text is a brief content overview of the essay On the fresh poetry of collage in Chris Meulemans’ drawings by Frank Maes, published in the book Puzzling the Laughing Petals.
The book is available via this website under Books.
In collaboration with Valerie Traan Gallery and Posture Editions