About Nadia Naveau

Nadia Naveau creates sculptures that balance between recognisability and abstraction, between playfulness and seriousness. Her work merges eras, styles and cultures. Her sources of inspiration are as diverse as her formal language: from the elegance of baroque sculptures to the directness of contemporary pop culture. Materiality plays a key role in her artistic practice. Naveau works with different materials. Her artistic process is intuitive and associative. Her works exude a spontaneous energy, as if they are constantly in motion. This fits within her broader research into transformation: how sculptures develop, how they refer to the past but at the same time evoke something new. ARTZUID is exhibiting Les Mamelles de Tirésias. Inspired by the eponymous Dadaist opera from 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire, Naveau explores themes such as gender, transformation and absurdism in this work.