Summary • French artist Marguerite Piard is set to open Les Veilleuses at Stems Gallery in Brussels on August 14 • Through her work, Piard urges audiences to challenge perceptions of female nudity

Stems Gallery is set to open a new solo exhibition by Marguerite Piard at its Brussels flagship. In Les Veilleuses, which translates to The Night Lights, paintings of friends, family and lovers find home in intimate settings, awash with warm, humane hues — “Les Veilleuses is about our loved ones,” as the gallery described.

Piard's tender, often tightly-framed, captures transport us to an emotional limbo akin to the silence shared between two friends. Echoing this sentiment is her unique choice of canvas, opting for sculpted wooden panels or smooth slabs of stone. Here, the artist presents b

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