Nout - Carole Vanderlinden

Carole Vanderlinden evoked ancient Egypt from the start of her discussions about her project at MINERVE, where one curatorial focus is the sun's trajectory, cyclical temporality, and the everyday. The figure of Nout, the Egyptian goddess who swallows the sun each evening and rebirths it at dawn, emerged as central. The selection of drawings spans both new and older works, chosen for their formal and symbolic resonances with Egyptian art — frontality, gestural economy, flattened perspectives, the primacy of contour, abstract decorative motifs. Co-curated with Elisabeth Van Caelenberge, art historian and Egyptologist.