This work is a persecution of Le Vrai Fake. I started feeling guilty by taking away a stone from its origins. While I was searching for explanations for this bizarre sentiment towards a stone, I got intrigued through its genesis. I decided to turn my guilt into motivation and dig deeper into the history of it.
I started reproducing the dried stone I found in the Atlas with earth, clay and seeds. They will bloom once they come in contact with water. The installation shows an irrigation system which can be set alive through pouring water.
With this work I want to highlight the problem of desertification. Desertification is the expansion or creation of deserts resulting from climate change and erosion through poor landscape management. Every year water stress threatens villages throughout Morocco by slowly creating inhabitable areas. One of the strategies to protect the land from drying out, or even to restore a desert landscape, is to grow forests.
Exhibition view ‘Le Vrai Fake II’ at Gluon, Brussels, © Photo's by Silvia Cappellari
Exhibition view ‘ARE(N)A’ at Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, © Photo's by Britt Guns
Biography
Lola Prima Donna Daels °1990, Brussel (BE). Member of Level Five, Brussels.
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- CV
Lola Prima Donna Daels (b. 1990 in Jette, BE) is a Brussels based artist. Leaving from found objects, she poses critical inquiries about the ecological and socio-political situation. By reshaping and integrating her relics into new contexts she questions the concept of authenticity in our globalizing society. She has exponentially gravitated towards researching the human impact from an ecological preoccupation. She works site-specifically, both in research scope as well as in execution.
Daels obtained her master degree in visual arts in 2014 at Luca School of Arts, Brussels. She has been part of several residency programs such as EKWC (NL), Kooshk recidency (IR) and Cité Internationale des Arts (FR). Her work was shown at Bozar (BE), Extracity Kunsthal (BE), Deegar Platform (IR), Art Sonje Center Seoul (KR) and many more.
Her interest in urban complexities led to the collaboration with architect and urbanist Sebastiaan Willemen.
Upcoming
2025
- Creatures of the Sea, Academia Belgica
30 January 2025 5PM - 9PM
This presentation unveils the work I’ve created during my residency (oct-jan) @academia_belgica
- Keikoppen, Museumhuis Lucien De Gheus (BE)
18 May 2025 - 21 Sept 2025.
Group Exhibition with Leyla Aydoslu, Dirk Braeckman, Peter Buggenhout, Casimir, Helena Cnockaert, Lola Daels, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Maarten De Ceulaer, Theo De Meyer, Lydia Hannah Debeer, Babs Decruyenaere, Edith Dekyndt, Lieve D’hondt, Sam Druant, Filip Dujardin, Johan Gelper, Annelotte Lammertse, Atelier lachaert d’hanis, Klaas Rommelaere, Linda Freya Tangelder, Ante Timmermans, Bram Van Breda, Muller Van Severen, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Bram Vanderbeke, Ybren Vanoverberghe, Studio Unfold, Dittmar Viaene, Conrad Willems, Dirk Zoete
Texts and publications
2025
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Ruimte Magazine: Bomen & bossen, Meesterproef; Sociaal Wonen "Moederbos" P.67
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A+ (306), Building for Culture, Sociaal Wonen P. 115.
2024
- Interview in Metropolis M by Jasper Delva
"Chocolade zeevruchten van nepmarmer: Lola Daels over haar simulacra-sculpturen"
- Video by Different Class (Jonas Reubens) about my residency at M Leuven.
2023
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Artist of the month, Interview by Elien Haentjens for Collect Magazine
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Lola Daels blaast rocaille nieuw leven, Interview door Cédric Raskin
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Veldwerk Publication 2022, published by Plan B, designed by Brecht Haeyen & Timo Bonneure.
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Brief van Tine Hens aan Shell-CEO Ben van Beurden
2022
- Interview with Subbacultcha, Who decides what’s valuable?
- Interview with Kunstenplatform PLAN B, Het onderzoeksplan: Sebastiaan Willemen & Lola Daels
2021
- Beschouwing Ephemeral Focus, Sofie Crabbé
2020
- Peer Production, Published by AAIR Antwerpen
- Hans Theys, over Le Vrai Fake I
- City Trip, CC Menen
2019
- HART Magazine, Interview Lola Daels
- Extracity Antwerpen, Objects VS Things
2016
- THE WORD magazine, chépas collective
- Rachelle Dufour, Finissage Group Exhibition
2014
- Davis Freeman about a Favela Project
- Marck Verminck, Doelmatigheid zonder doel… voor een doel
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