Biography
Oliver Lenaerts construes on the basis of photos or phots of staged scenes. his background as lawyer serves as guidance without being autobiographic. by doing so, he makes snapshots which reproduce a typical key element in corporate negotiations. he draws (charcoal and graphite) with a nod to the black and white of profilephots on social media like LinkedIN. Text is intended to provide context. But itis the combination of text and image that brings out something underneth - a sharp irony. He pretends to know what he is talking about but never forget one moment that he is pretending. His work is the visual equivalent of pretending sincerely.
