About

Polly Pollet (1993) is a Belgian artist based in Brussels. Her practice moves between drawing, installation and the staging of space. With an intuitive and sensitive approach, she explores the links between memory, perception, everyday spaces and contemporary behaviour.

Drawing is at the heart of her practice. She works mainly in ballpoint pen, a medium that allows no erasing and no correction. Every mark becomes a witness of time, gesture and hesitation. For Pollet, drawing is more than a tool for representation: it is a mental space where memory, fiction and lived experience exist side by side.

Her work often starts from ordinary spaces we pass through without really looking: night shops, launderettes, waiting rooms, transitional architecture. In the ongoing project Polly Express, she turns these familiar places into installations where humour, poetry and social reflection meet. The first edition, Polly Express, Into The Night, took over a former Brussels night shop to question consumption and visual overload. The second, Pollet Wasserette, revisited the launderette as a space of repetition and mental projection.

Repetition, time and everyday gestures are central to her practice. Her installations reveal the invisible mechanisms that shape our behaviour and the way we inhabit contemporary spaces.

Recent projects such as Palm Shadows approach memory as something shifting and unstable. Shaped by the years she lived in Medellín, Colombia, and by the aesthetics of magical realism, her drawings turn landscapes, shadows and fragments of memories into emotional reconstructions. Drawing directly from memory, she creates images that sit between presence and disappearance.

Text plays an essential role too. Through automatic writing, words and images emerge in one intuitive flow, revealing mental fragments, free associations and sensitive traces.

Between intimacy, absurdity and social critique, Polly Pollet develops a practice in which the everyday becomes a poetic and psychological territory, inviting the viewer to look differently at the spaces and images that shape our reality.