A, I love you like a love song baby, 2023
perfect ratios by Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, curated by Laurens Otto, with Gideon Kiefer, Marie Cloquet, Dieter Durinck, Magalie Reus, Natasja Mabesoone and Kasper De Vos.
Six artists create ten unique works in A4 format. The idea originates from Jan Hoet, who at the time went around artists' studios armed with a stack of paper to support his museum by selling their drawing.
An A4 is a small miracle in its handiness: no matter how many times you fold it in half, it retains its original proportions.
For the fifth series of perfect ratios, Natasja Mabesoone spreads the line A, I love you like a love song baby across 10 sheets of paper in swirling handwriting. The work is an ode to the clever A format, as a love letter inspired by the repetitive Selena Gomez hit Love You Like a Love Song. The images within the words are either reduced or blown up on hand-drawn kitschy stationery, just as A paper sizes fold from the enlargements A0, A1, A2 and A3 to the reductions A5, A6, A7, A8 and A9.
