Solange KNOPF

Solange Knopf was born in Brussels in 1957. Attracted to art for as long as she can remember, she put it on the back burner for a number of years, until it came to the fore as a way of coping with painful episodes in her life. At the end of the 90s, she studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Ixelles, but, driven by the need for resolutely personal expression, she soon withdrew from all artistic training. The collection of the Art et marges museum includes several drawings by Solange Knopf. For this work, Chinese ink was used on the page of an old book: it shows faces that appear to be floating in amniotic fluid. It is not clear whether they are animal or human, but it seems as if a pre-existing stain determined the composition of the drawing that dates back to 2011.