BRUSSELS.- Dujourie (°1941 in Roeselare, lives and works in Lovendegem, Belgium) has been developing a singular practice based on conjunctions of forms, materials and subjects. Through sculpture, collage, video, and photography, Dujourie's oeuvre bridges categories: indebted to abstraction, it frequently references the figure, including her own; while mostly muted in tone, color can burst forth unexpectedly; and fiercely in sync with the present, her work is steeped in history and classicism.

The artist came to prominence in the late 1960s as part of a generation of artists reassessing the foundations of medium specificity. From her key early sculpture Amerikaans Imperialisme and her video and photographic work from the 1970s, to her sculptures in the 1980s and 1990s, to her more recent paper-based works, the dominant aesthetic codes of the time find themselves recast as rhythm, ellipsis and ambivalence. As Dujourie has said, "I want to indicate the duplicity (visible/invisible, present/absent) in its totality and make it experienceable." This search for what lies at the same time above and below the threshold of experience continues to drive her practice, as evidenced by Mimesis, the monumental bronze sculpture commissioned in 2022 by the City of Antwerp for the Royal Museum of Fine Arts.

Widely exhibited since the 1970s, Dujourie’s work has gained international prominence through such large-scale exhibitions as Documenta 12 (2007), the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009) and the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018). Two major solo exhibitions took place simultaneously in 2015, at S.M.A.K., Ghent, and Mu.Zee, Ostend. In 2016, Dujourie was awarded the Flemish Culture Prize for Visual Arts. Her work features in numerous private and public collections worldwide, including Castello di Rivoli, Torino; Generali Foundation Collection, Salzburg; La Caixa Foundation Collection of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; M HKA, Antwerp; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and S.M.A.K., Ghent. Since 1983, Dujourie has been collaborating with Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp.

A solo exhibition by Dujourie will open at Jan Mot on September 7, 2023. Works by the artist will feature in Jan Mot's booths at Art Basel (Basel, June 15-18) and Paris+ by Art Basel (Paris, October 20-22).