Let's Play It by Ear

A stunning overview of Nadia Naveau's figurative sculpture

"In recent decades, Naveau has developed a highly personal formal language with a strikingly recognisable plastic vocabulary and idiom: a style she has maintained consistently, but with which she still manages to surprise us."

— Paul Huvenne

Nadia Naveau blends seriousness with play, and her ability to seduce viewers, while evoking a sense of strangeness is unmatched.

Let’s Play it by Ear is not only a retrospective of twenty years of artistic practice, but also, like her sculptures, a visual puzzle of materials and references to the past and present.

Publication accompanying the exhibition Nadia Naveau – Bringer Together in de Warande in Turnhout, Belgium, from 12 December 2021 until 3 April 2022.

With contributions by Jon Wood, Paul Huvenne and Jeroen Olyslaegers.