New artist-in-residence: Carmen Schabracq

Carmen Schabracq (1988, Amsterdam) is a visual artist and works in various media including sculpture, textile, painting, performances and costumes. The mask is a recurring object and theme within her work, with which she explores the layered nature of human identity and her own identity as a -female- artist and mother. She collects fragments of stories and characters from various myths, (folk) art history and her own experiences and uses them to create a visual story.
During her residency at Lottozero Carmen wants to turn her research on her Jewish ancestors and family name SCHABRACQ - which means horse or saddle blanket - into a body of textile works connected to the horse.

Carmen was born in Amsterdam where she lives, works and graduated in visual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2012), after a year of painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. She obtained her Masters degree in theater costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (2015).

Carmen Schabracq, I am a mother now