Aline Bouvy
Letter to my future self
2025
€265,00
Offset print on 115gr Blueback paper
59,4 x 84,1 cm
Edition of 15 copies, signed & numbered by the artist
In stock
about this work
Aline Bouvy’s Letter to my future self shows an old postcard of a child posting a letter. Its nostalgic aesthetic, with clear contours and saturated colours recalls the visual language of another era. Appropriated in Bouvy’s practice, this innocent image becomes layered with questions about who we were, who we are, and who we hope to become. Letter to my future self is both curious and uncertain: an attempt to grasp an identity that never fully stands still.
In Bouvy’s recent solo exhibition Hot Flashes at Casino Luxembourg, a postcard with this image was hidden inside a drawer that closed automatically when a viewer approached, always close but never fully accessible. Now the image is not only freed and visible, it has also been blow up to A1 size.
All PLAKT editions can be presented in Valérian Goalec’ Act 24.3. This work functions as a stand-alone wall sculpture, but also as a support for the print editions in this series. Act 24.3 comes with four strong magnets to mount and easily change prints.
about Aline Bouvy
Aline Bouvy’s multidisciplinary practice is a way of expressing her refusal to compromise and adapt to systems in our society which aim to regulate our longing, conforming it to the norms and values which shape that same society. Bouvy questions and denounces how the images we have of ourselves and of humanity are determined by this morality.
In this way, Bouvy is attracted to the non-conventional – not to fetishize elements from the margins of society, but from a wish to normalise what is considered out-of-bounds, and thereby adjusting the prevailing morality. In earlier works, Aline Bouvy used with images of stray dogs and weeds, or made bas-reliefs of anuses with phallic shapes stuck in them. The male nude is a recurrent motive in her work, again not as a fetish but rather a counterweight to the naked female body that seems to be everywhere, not only throughout art history but also in our contemporary visual culture.
Aline Bouvy questions how we handle contemporary cultural production and takes a stand against norms and values society imposes upon us.
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