Berlinde De Bruyckere: Romeu, 'my deer'

Working with casts made of wax, animal skins, hair, textiles, metal, and wood, Berlinde De Bruyckere renders haunting distortions of organic forms. This publication presents a group of sculptures and drawings united by a concern with the human figure and the deer. A professional dancer, Romeu, served as De Bruyckere’s model, defining his movements and poses and developing her own sculptural choreography to create faceless, malformed, and fragmentary figures, alongside whom the deer appears as a majestic ambassador of nature. Photographs by Mirjam Devriendt show the fragile and vulnerable sculptures exhibited in an abandoned house in the old town of Ghent, while a text by Caroline Lamarche tells the story of the life and work of a sculptor and her urge to create.