From 7 until 30 May 2021 the duo exhibition of Lisse Declercq & Tramaine de Senna: 'First Date' is on in Room Platform. 

The Bernaerts house, located in an interbellum cinema, offers its entrance and room on the first floor to these two promising young women artists. 

Tramaine de Senna (b. San Francisco) is an artist from California who presently lives in Antwerp. In 2015, Tramaine became a laureate of the HISK (Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten) in Ghent (BE); in 2013, de Senna earned an MFA from the Sint Joost Academy in Breda and 's-Hertogenbosch (NL); and in 2004, graduated with High Honors with two simultaneous BA degrees in Architecture and in Art from the University of California at Berkeley.
De Senna's ever-evolving body of work bears witness to the artist's intense relationship with materials and interests in issues such as the “migration of forms,” pop and material culture, internalized violence, exuberance, and the enduring ambiguous presence – “ghosts” – of histories. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, which currently includes “Figure of Color” an initiative of Kunst in de Stad – Middelheimmuseum in Antwerp's Stadspark, BE (July 3, 2020 – April 18, 2021), and her recent solo exhibition, “MASTERBLASTER,” for the IN SITU program at the MHKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, BE (January 18 – August 23, 2020).  

Lisse Declercq is a Belgian artist born in Lüdenscheid (DE). She has an MFA in Painting from the MAD-FAC School of Arts in Hasselt (BE). Her work has been shown at de Warande in Turnhout and will be exhibited in the 2021 Triennial of Bruges. 
Declercq elaborated her painting techniques and foundations by watching makeup tutorials on Youtube. She bends this language to stage social selfies, an awareness of a certain reality, and its effects on ways of looking. In this culture of the copy, this millennial painter moves between fantasy and reality while calling into question authenticity. Declercq questions the longing for perfection, the copy-paste Instagram/ media aesthetics as an impossible, endless battle of unwillingly and unknowingly playing a part in a “reality show” in a virtual media reality

Exhibition: 7 – 30 May
Wed-Sun 1pm – 6pm (by appointment)
Entrance: Verlatstraat 20