Phara Vandenbussche (2002) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Starting from small fiction stories she writes, her visual practice resides between fantasy, history and reality.
Dan genoot ik van het sap dat langs mijn kin doorliep tot het zich mengde met mijn bloed, 2026, analog photograph, 21 x 29,7 cm.
Ik verlangde ernaar om nieuw te zijn en stak mijn handen in de aarde 1/2, 2026, wood and transferpaper, 13 x 13 cm.
Ik heb mijn zus een jaar lang wakker gehouden, 2026, wood, paint and ink, 30 x 10 cm.
Het jaar dat niets groeide, 2025, steel, unbaked clay and stone, measurements variable.
Zij, die draaien, 2025, steel, ground charcoal, glass and shell, 42 x 29,5 x 3,5 cm.
The Year, 2025, cardboard, branches, steel, fire and ash, 30 x 30 x 40 cm.
For the art-auction Mondial Delay at WD40.
Installation: Ik stond weer in de weide, 2024, mirrors, steel, tar and charcoal, 120 x 120 x 40 cm.
Ik verloor iets in de bergen, 2024, silkscreen print of glue with charcoalpowder, 100 x 70 cm.
En dan gewoon luisteren, 2023-2024, two steel boxes with charcoal and tar, both 11,7 x 11,5 x 23,2 cm.
Molenaarssteen, 2024, gypsum and wood, diameter: 110 cm.
Exhibited at the tree of us in BLANCO, 2024.
Schim, 2024, UV print on paper with wooden canvas, 21 x 29,7 cm.
Landschap I en II, 2024, relief print of felt, charcoal on paper with steel canvas, both 42,5 x 29,5 cm.
Compounds, 2023, charcoal drawing, 105 x 89,1 cm.
Installation: Steen, 2023, felt, steel, gas burner and paraffine, measurements variable.
link video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zX8QnGLyW8
Near-touch, 2023, concrete, steel and textile, measurements variable.
Switzerland, 2022, analog photograph, 2,4 x 3,6 cm.
Fragments of publication: Liminoid, 2022, binded using Fukuro-Toji technique, 14,8 x 21 cm.
Palmaria Palmata, 2022, UV print on textile, ceramic, glass, measurements variable.
Noord Frankrijk, 2022, monoprint with charcoal on gypsum, 14,8 x 21 cm.
Notities van niets, 2022, wood with charcoal drawing and woodcut with graphite, both 70 x 50 cm.
Heksenkring, 2022, analog photograph, 2,4 x 3,6 cm.
Studies
2020-2023 -- Bachelor in Textile Design, LUCA School of Arts Ghent.
2023-2024 -- Master in Textile Design, LUCA School of Arts Ghent.
2024-2025 -- Educational Master in Audiovisual en Visual Arts, LUCA School of Arts Ghent.
Projects
2026 -- Spuitcabine 9040 (artist-run-space).
2025 -- curated the exhibition Futile Truths together with Nadia Smialowksa.
Group exhibitions
2026 -- TROEP, MENGELMOES, ROTZOOI, DREK, ZWIJNENKEET, BEESTENBENDE, ROMMELZOOI, AFVAL EN CHAOS at Spuitcabine 9040, Sint-Amandsberg.
2026 -- The Introduction at Spuitcabine 9040, Sint-Amandsberg.
2026 -- Kitchen for starters at Hoogstraat 137, Ghent (curated by Ivanna Nejelski).
2025 -- Futile Truths at Shelter Store, Ghent.
2025 -- Zomersalon 4: Buy Local at Kunsthal, Ghent.
2024-2025 -- Free Graphics Art Competition at CC Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg.
2024 -- Mondial Delay (auction) at WD40, Ghent.
2024 -- the tree of us at BLANCO, Ghent.
2023 -- Where do we go from here? at Estate De Campagne, Drongen.
2023 -- Things that take time at CAMPO BOMA, Ghent.
2023 -- R.I.P. EGO - Nightwatch at FoMu, Antwerp.