Bernice Nauta

The practice of Bernice Nauta (b. 1991, Netherlands) consists of drawing and painting. Site-specific installations, objects, stories, audio works and films. Through- out the works parafictional characters appear which hover between paper, canvas and the human body: they are object and subject alike and live in between the visible and invisible, like the figure of the stunt double. In this liminal space Nauta’s protagonists are on a quest for  identity and continuously in search of a form. The interplay between the surface and what lies underneath that surface, is a recurring method she  employs. Next to her individual practice, she collaborates with a variety of people.

Italian journalist Augusto Ficele wrote during visiting Art Antwerpen:

…. Galerie Mieke van Schaijk offers a delightful discovery by presenting the young painter Bernice Nauta. In works like Haar wezen and Id, asleep, an emotional vocabulary emerges that is not immediately perceptible but beats a pictorial language that cannot be captured in words. There is a theatrical curtain that refuses to fully rise—it’s pure childhood prose….