50. 50AR ISABELLE DE BORCHGRAVE(1946-2024) Sybille, 2023 Signed and dated Acrylic and gouache on folded paper 97 x 157 cm Pleating is a veritable trademark and determines most of Isabelle de Borchgrave's pictorial and sculptural work. Inspired by the pleated fabric of Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949, textile designer), synonymous with elegance, luxury and sensuality in the early 1900s, Isabelle de Borchgrave's series of pleated works seizes on the codes of this technique and creates anamorphes on flat paper to reveal a result modified by the puckering of the paper. The sketch of this pleat appears in a travel diary from Greece in the summer of 2021. It echoes lot 1 of the In the Garden sale. Exhibition Isabelle de Borchgrave Studio, Brussels, Belgium - Recent works, 2024