Flore Tanghe (1991) is a visual artist based in Ghent, tracing the space around her while navigating the complexity of daily life. Everyday elements return as recurring motifs that carry layered and shifting meanings, echoing the repetitiveness of her feelings, surroundings, interactions and situations. Through drawings, scale models, photographs and prints, she constructs quiet constellations in an attempt to grasp and reorder her world. While the human figure remains absent, the work is built from personal experience, unfolding through architectural, natural and spatial elements shaped by processes of recreation and simplification.

My work consists of drawings, scale models/objects, and graphic art to process experiences, translate desires, and immortalize observations. Space is invariably how I give form to these elements, and the human figure is absent even though it is the subject.
As a child, I grew up in a village and in the weekends I went to the countryside where cows, frogs, grasshoppers, rivers, eels, long grass, … where making my playground. Now I have been living in the city for years and long increasingly for the countryside, where I find peace and am deeply inspired artistically. Animals, plants, walks—the tranquility is something I try to seek out in every spare moment. In recent years, thoughts about how the nature around us is increasingly man-made and altered have come to the surface. It feels like a loss of wild nature, I feel sad I will maybe never ‘know’ true wild nature anymore. And I feel partly responsible for it. We as humans are not the center of the world, even though the majority thinks and behaves as if we are and this idea is on the surface a lot. This is a theme that is also beginning to influence my visual art, and I am seeking a period of focus to allow this to unfold in my work. For this, I am looking for a place surrounded by nature, tranquility, and animals. Apart from that, I am currently trying to strengthen the connection between my drawings, objects, and printmaking.
So I would mainly use this period to draw and let spatial elements grow closer together. The spatial aspect often stems from small objects or textures I find in my surroundings, which emerge from my drawings or are subsequently incorporated back into my drawings as images. I hope to find different types of stones on this island, collect bits of debris, use other textures… and, above all, let myself be inspired by a different environment.