Berlinde De Bruyckere

[6] At the beginning of her artistic career, she had to convince her parents to let her go to the art academy, and in order to fund her studies, she gave drawing lessons.

[3] In 2013, she visited a skin-trader workshop in Anderlecht, Belgium, which expanded her repertoire, and she began working with wax casts of animal hides.

[5] Before working on the life-size sculptures for her exhibitions, De Brucyckere would make a scale model of the artwork rather than sketching it out.

The angel's body is in a still position, covered with a cloth-like texture, making the face hidden from the viewer and their wings faintly extending.

[10] The cloth-like texture is an influence from De Bruyckere's past works, as she would use blankets as an element in her art as they symbolize intimacy and protection.

[13] It is a mutilated horse that has no facial futures, and its upper body and front legs are crouching down and touching the surface of the table that it is on top of.

[14] The sculpture gives the illusion that the body of the horse is either dead, alive, or between life and death, and the blanket around it is used as a self-protection.

[9] Bruyckere's artwork can be found in numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Collezione Gori Fattoria di Cella, Pistoia: and La Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris.