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Nicole Callebaut (1935) is an internationally renowned Belgian visual artist who has tirelessly explored for 50 years the relationship between line and surface, between light and colour in a desire for both pictorial and intellectual research. After studying decorative arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, she became a journalist for Belgian radio and television, co‐wrote the book on Rites and Mysteries in the Near East published by Robert Laffont, co‐directed films for ethnographic character before settling for several years in New York where she reconnected with painting, then founded an art school in Loulé in Portugal and continued tirelessly to make her paper in the tank, to paint and to exhibit on both sides of the Atlantic, testifying to an apparently inexhaustible vitality. Her works are among others in the collections of the Center Pompidou (Paris), the National Museum for Women in the Arts (Washington DC), the Museum of Sharjah (USA), the French Community of Belgium, the Museum of Mons, the Museum of Ixelles (Brussels), the Centro Cultural Loulè and the Centro Cultural Faro (Portugal).Text in English and French.

This confinement diary will act as viaticum or an outlet for all those who will inevitably recognise themselves in this chronicle, both acerbic and empathetic, while waiting to drop their masks.“Since 2015, every day I have an appointment with my black pen and my Moleskine notebook. I put a drawing and a sentence on it. A diary, this is the form my work has taken over the past few years.” This is how this illustrator with a sharp line treats her daily life, sometimes tragic and very intimate, such as her fight against severe depression recounted in À l''ouest (L''Esperluète, 2017) then against cancer with Le Doute (L'' Ampersand, 2020), sometimes more ordinary and common, as is the case here with this confinement diary started in March 2020, always with this caustic and liberating humour which characterises her and earns her many admirers.Text in English and French.