Isabelle Cornaro

In her first solo exhibition in Belgium, the French artist Isabelle Cornaro is presenting new installations tailor-made to the spaces at M – Museum Leuven.

The work of Isabelle Cornaro (1974, France) evinces an interest in the way our perspectives are historically and culturally determined.

Due to her training as an art historian specialised in 16th- and 17th-century Western art, her visual language is strongly associated with the forms and compositions of the past, ranging from Baroque and Classicism to Modernist abstraction.

In her installations, casts and films, Cornaro plays with the possible meanings of everyday implements and artistic objects by placing them in a new context. Just like in the composition of a classical painting, she groups the objects around a specific theme or arranges them according to size, lines of perspective, light and shadow effects, etc. This profoundly questions our perception of the objects and of her work.