Art Brussels

Natasja Mabesoone (°1988, BE) works at the porous edges of printmaking, drawing, and painting, where conceptual reflection, material engagement, and social context exist in constant dialogue. Her practice departs from the understanding that the printing press is never neutral: it registers touch, pressure, residue, and loss, producing images through repetition and degradation. Each impression carries traces of what transfers and what resists, foregrounding contingency, chance, and failure as productive forces within an image economy shaped by consumption, saturation, and power. Language and image intersect in Mabesoone’s work as sites of politics and social construction. Through a feminist lens, she unpacks myth and pop culture, examining how meaning is produced, circulated, and deconstructed.  

Her practice activates visual languages often coded as feminine—glitter, makeup, scratch lettering, stencils, and temporary tattoos— alongside etching, monotype, silkscreen, collage, drawn scribbles, and painterly gestures. These elements are never mere ornament. The cute and decorative operate as subtle, oblique forms of resistance, gently destabilizing hierarchies of value, authorship, and visibility. Mabesoone’s work attends to the slippages between seeing and touching, knowing and feeling, proposing vulnerability, play, and attentiveness as critical strategies for navigating contemporary visual culture.  

Processes of gossip, repetition, translation, and mis- or re-reading shape her exhibitions, where works mutate and rearticulate earlier gestures. Installations, works on paper, murals, and site-specific interventions respond to their surroundings and to one another, generating spaces in which instability, contamination, and pleasure become critical vectors.