Jacqueline de Jong, Naufrage en Mediterranée (Border Line), 2020. Hainaut Province Collection, Charleroi.
Jacqueline de Jong's Naufrage en Mediterranée (2020) is included in Stayin’ Alive at Musée d'art de la Province de Hainaut (BPS22) in Charleroi. Through some forty paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and videos drawn from the BPS22 collections, and for the most part never before exhibited, this exhibition envisages the museum as an essential place for bringing art alive and sharing it with as many people as possible.
A former Situationist International member, Jacqueline de Jong brings the observer face-to-face with the reality associated with current migratory events. In Naufrage en Mediterranée (2020), raised barbed wire imprisons the people shown, connecting the onlooker with their dramatic circumstances in an almost physical way. In an expressionist register she has favoured from a very young age, the artist uses vibrant colours to portray these bodies at death’s door, deformed, dislocated and locked within the frame of the representation.
18 February – 23 April 2023
