Wim Legrand

°1978, Belgium
Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Wim Legrand’s work offers a playful take on the paradoxical strangeness of everyday reality, while commenting on our postmodern condition as victims to the barrage of information and news feeds. Mundane and forgettable objects usher the familiar into peculiar allegorical narratives, where past blurs with present and fact with fiction – setting scenes in a liminal zone, in the unfettered “now” of a dream, meanings just out of reach and continually open to interpretation.

Legrand has a set of symbolic characters that are often present throughout any body of work, each representing particular ideas and personalities in conversation with one another.

Legrand combines painting with drawing, cartoons, and pop culture with aesthetic references to North European history painting and Surrealist traditions – the post-modern world overlaid onto the art historical atmosphere in which he was raised. To date, Legrand has held solo shows in Belgium and South Africa and has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the globe. His most recent accolades include a group exhibition in Shanghai and his first solo in The Netherlands.