Atelier Van Lieshout Mother Lamp

This maternal piece harkens back to the Paleolithic origins of sculpture: totemic Venus altars and fertility statues built by ancient matriarchal societies. Emblematic of the artist’s worship of the generative power of womanhood, omnipresent in his work from Mother Earth and Mother Earth Constructivist to Womb House, this work connects to an ongoing study of human organs, highlighting the contrast between primitivism and constructivism, depicting the body and its processes as evidence of “divine architecture”.