Theology, Imagination and the Arts
Sander Vloebergs is both an academic and an artist. He recently finished his PhD thesis in Theology (KULeuven) and Literature (UAntwerpen) on the conceptualization and interpretation of pain in the thirteenth-century mystical culture of Liège. Vloebergs’ source materials are ideas and images. His medium is located in the virtual world of the imagination. He expresses his creations through dance and drawings. Vloebergs is interested in the (re)construction of sacred art, movement and composition, and the interrelation between bodies, images, and words.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Writing for our series on artists’ creative processes, visual artist, choreographer, and theologian Sander Vloebergs describes how a unique personal theology has…