YOUNG EUROPEAN ARTISTS

Juliette Van Waterloo is an activist artist who explores feminist, ecological, and decolonial issues through textiles. Trained at the Angers School of Arts and Design (DNA, specializing in textile techniques) and then at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (master's degree in tapestry and textile arts), she combines hand embroidery, bobbin lace, tufting, and other textile techniques in installations that are both delicate and immersive.

Her works create a dialogue between the softness of the materials and the gravity of the subjects evoked: state violence, injustice, and systemic oppression. Juliette Van Waterloo invents counter-narratives through colorful tapestries and embroideries, reviving practices previously associated with femininity in order to question power and collective memory. She cites “textiles in struggle,” emphasizing the transformation of embroidery and tapestry as instruments of resistance and memory.