from: IKOB, Eupen (BE)
to: Ludwig Forum, Aachen (DE)
description:
Underdog by Huize You is a digital collage of deconstructed football jerseys of the AS Eupen, the local football club of the German-speaking community of Belgium. The football jerseys were donated to the artist after they were damaged in the regional floods in 2021, and reworked by her into new configurations. For this flag, the material fragments are arranged in the form of the map of this territory. As a newcomer and an outsider to the borderland region, Huize channels questions of belonging and displacement in her work.
Born and raised in China, Huize You studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and is now based in Eupen, Belgium. Having passed through the relentless cycle of the fashion industry, her work now exists at the intersection of personal history, cultural displacement, and the quiet rebellion against imposed roles. As both a designer and artist, she uses fashion as a tool—not simply as an industry-bound discipline, but as a language to question identity, belonging, and engage in a negotiation between tradition and autonomy. Huize is a laureate of the IKOB – Feminist Art Prize 2025, having been awarded the third prize for an artist living in East Belgium.
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