WASHING WOMEN (DORA DE CONINCK)
With nostalgia, the artist looks back to a rural world where the village community was still a close-knit unit. Two women stand near the pump and water tank, their eyes fixed on the laundry they are wringing out. Their headscarves are still traditional but their clothes are stylized. The little boy playing seems to be from our modern times. His twisted baseball cap gives the idyllic scene a contemporary touch. Only in our imagination can we turn back time.
DORA DE CONINCK
Dora De Coninck makes sculptures and mixed media works.
Lives and works in Belsele.
The sculpture group 'The Washing Women' was placed in 2009 around the historical village pump of Belsele by order of 'Art in Belsele'.
Three figures executed in bronze: two women and a child. Height 1,65 meter
Kunst in Belsele, June 14th 2009