As a multidisciplinary artist based in Ghent, Stien Bekaert explores concepts such as alienation, connectedness and identity. In her practice, throughout which digital media are omnipresent, she researches the use of found footage material and its new connotations through manipulation, distortion and isolation from its original context. The layering of techniques, carriers and formats in this research process creates a fascinating convergence of different backgrounds, a new visual language.
Errors, misprints and unexpected results ensure the uniqueness of the final product by becoming techniques for creation. Her work demonstrates a layered vision of reality and a transformation of visual elements into emotional values through colours, a play of intensities.

Stien Bekaert uses photography as a tool to study a way of viewing, but her artistic outcome is not strictly photographic. With installations in space, she creates a counterbalance to still images. As an artist, she believes in spreading her work over more than one medium to obtain a literal and a figurative identity. This allows the viewers to write their own story within the existing framework.