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Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens its fifth exhibition with Sophie Kuijken Sophie Kuijken, Z.V., 2021. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 90 x 160 x 4,5 cm. © Sophie Kuijken. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris / Brussels. PARIS .-Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Belgian artist Sophie Kuijken’s fifth exhibition, following her 2020 show in Brussels. Shielded from the limelight for nearly 20 years, then unveiled for the first time in 2011 at the Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum, under the encouragement of its director Joost Declerq, Sophie Kuijken’s pictorial oeuvre is a highly singular addition to the art of portraiture. Following in the footsteps of Flemish painting, Sophie Kuijken’s work disrupts the genre’s traditional codes from the inside, by adopting a deeply troubling contemporary approach. In an atypical space between two worlds, her portraits are imbued with a paradoxical presence, at once silent and scrutinizing, human and spectral, blurring the contours of hu

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