Night Shift Revisited by Annelies Vanhaverbeke

In this series 'Night Shift REVISITED, I asked visual artists to get inspired by the music of my solo album 'Night Shift'.
Annelies Vanhaverbeke has always touched me as an artist and as a person. Meeting her and admiring her work is like a simple step to freedom, to dreamland that is so close and so quickly forgotten. She lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
In 2003 she graduated as Master of Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (KASKA) and did a Post Graduate, Autonomous Visual Arts, at the Academy Post Sint Joost in Breda (Netherlands) in 2003-2004.
Although the practice of Annelies Vanhaverbeke is multidisciplinary, and holds the middle ground between painting, sculpture, drawing and the making of collages and assemblages, in recent years it is primarily the paintings that speak. Unburdened by a background in painting, she puts them on canvas in a very free manner. She lets go of perspective. She paints with brushes and tools such as slats, mixes paint on the canvas, repaints and works in a collage - and with strong references to sculpture - in a very characteristic style.
"March 2020 I started a series of paintings with the working title Salon de Quoi Faire. Interiors in which apparently nothing happens. In those first drawings and paintings, people/people are the big absentees, just like in my previous paintings. Quiet lives.
Following the music of Tuur Florizoone, Night Shift, I started making sketches and drawings based on a night with my lover in Liège. When the pubs were still open and the curfew didn't stop us from going wherever we wanted. The nightly dancing and wandering through the city, the warmth and coziness of the pub, ... reminded me strongly of the atmosphere and rhythm of the Galway song.
People populate the interiors."
Camera & editing: Barts Zwysen
Galway - Tuur Florizoone - album: ’Night Shift’