“Memories of the ‘unfigurable’: paying the debt, pointing to the void”

The article explores the role of visual montage in the work of Flemish artist Berlinde De Bruyckere, with special reference to issues of memory, trauma, working through and witnessing. The methodology of analysis is largely semiotic, pointing to concepts/operators such as the figural, the articulation of plastic and figurative semiotics, the role of the 'neutre'.