Alexia Verstraelen aka Alvex or "Cosmic abstraction".
If the number of stars is estimable despite their apparent infinity, the creative possibilities remain limitless. This is all the more true in abstraction. Just as the universe is expanding despite its fixed content, so Art is constantly developing in line with practical and technical developments. Alexia Verstraelen's work has also unfolded like her own universe of canvases and stars with a recognisable style. A veritable astronaut, the artist has made her way into her own personal galaxy, through the black hole of the imagination. The planets, constellations and other marvels of the cosmos inspire him more than anything else, to the point of constituting the unique but vast subject matter of his works. These are the result of a long process of experimentation and an increasingly complex mastery of her technique, a mixture of chance and controlled gestures: the painter handles the spray can with freedom and spontaneity, always guided by her emotions. Projecting the well-being that moves her with gentleness, or evacuating anger and sadness with tension, it's a constructive way for her to combat depression through pressure. A multitude of stars in colours that are sometimes sober and discreet, sometimes boreal and hallucinatory, compose her sensitive score on a firmament of varied media. Like many artists seeking to escape the world through their creations, Alexia Verstraelen has extracted herself from it, even abstracted herself from it, rocketing towards the secluded confines and magnetic atmospheres of her stellar theatre, inviting us, through art, to do the same.
Lionel Lebeau