Elly Strik (1961, The Hague) lives and works in Brussels. She teaches at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. After numerous solo exhibitions in Spain (Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid), Germany (Kunsthalle, Mainz), the Netherlands (De Pont, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg), Quebec (1700 La Poste, Montreal), and Finland (Museum of Modern Art, Espoo), a representative selection of her work is hosted for the first time in Luxembourg at the Nosbaum Reding gallery.

Elly Strik's paintings, drawings, and sculptures are characterized by dreamlike and poetic imagery, where materiality and energy, the evanescence of the line, and the power of evocation meet. This is particularly evident in the artist's treatment of materials such as graphite, colored pencils, oil paint, silver leaf, gold leaf, apoxy sculpt, and wood.

Fascinated by the human psyche and the mechanisms of creativity in the development of consciousness, her work is multifaceted, multiplying the fields of perception both sensorially and symbolically. Les chaussures que ma mère m'a données is an exhibition in which Elly Strik's sculptures, drawings, and paintings interact to create real synergies in the gallery space.

For this new exhibition, the oval shape returns in different variations to echo the shape of our own faces. The artist's intention is to convey the impression of infinity at work within a gaze. One of the works in the exhibition is entitled Mirror-call, which, when pronounced, sounds like “miracle.”

The artist is not referring directly to the reflection of light or the object in front of the mirror, but rather to an inner movement. The artist wants to make tangible the inner world that is unique to each of us and reveal the dynamics of connection that are often invisible to the naked eye.

Elly Strik explains: "The eye behaves like an unusual organ. This is where the journey that interests me can begin, the one that relates to a state of being that goes beyond the way reality presents itself to us.”