Lisette van Hoogenhuyze’s paintings and installations consist of layers, patterns and colour arrangements, derived from various visual motifs from leisure culture, such as a day at the beach.

The beach is a place of fantasy halfway between water and land. Behind the positive imagery of bath towels and cool boxes lies an interest in keeping up appearances, identity and stereotyping. How to abstract these subjects?

Van Hoogenhuyze researches this through cut out and torn, dangling canvases, and seems to unfinish the finished canvas again.