Goele De Bruyn's works, often containing elements from the immediate domestic environment, deal with a variety of formal and human concerns. By juxtaposing or overlapping functionality and the non-functional, the familiar and the strange, or by unifying them in their contradictions, her works are sometimes absurd or slightly comical, but are always marked by a specific emotional tension. The uneasy 'being', the melancholy and absence of the hybrid object reveal the works themselves as cultural constructions. The principles with which meaning is constructed are related to the staging of the works. Elements from earlier works are often reused, copied, relocated, altered, disguised. The work traverses different periods, its character contaminated according to the environment it infiltrates. In this way, Goele De Bruyn always again constitutes a mental space for every audience. Objects and environment often form a reassuring and disturbing whole. Disorientation is her point of departure. Once one has adapted, doubt is again renewed along the path of interpretation; there is a play of 'disappointment' in opposition to every expectation. She does not so much reveal the idyllic or touching aspects of the objects as their potential to become something else. The brute familiarity of the objects that appear are alienated from their referent, giving rise to a turbid, sometimes invisible or ghostly retranslation of the sign referred to.

(Free translation of Philippe Pirotte's text, 'The World Revisited', about Goele De Bruyn.)

Food make Goele knows Xiamen, The Daily Xiamen, 12 August 2011
Goele De Bruyn, The Daily Xiamen, 6 August 2011
De schoonheid van het alledaagse in galerie Valerie Traan, Agnes Goyvaerts, De Morgen Magazine, 19 February 2011
Goele De Bruyn, Marc Ruyters, Hart, 10 February 2011
Het schone van het nuttige of het nuttige van het schone?, Eliane Van Den Ende, Hart, 4 March 2010
Annual 2007, Netwerk/center for contemporary art, Aalst, 2008
1+1=3, Bert Danckaert, bijlage bij Hart, 31 March 2007
Kunst maakt school, Eric Rinckhout, De Morgen, 4 April 2007
Kunstproject bekroont "red de school-actie", Filip Marsboom, Het Laatste Nieuws, 31 March 2007
Kunst geeft van katoen, SVG, De Gentenaar, 25 March 2005
Handleiding 03-04, Netwerk Galerij Aalst, 2005
Subjects unknowing, Alice Evermore, 2004
De Kunst zoals ze is, Christine Veugen, Actuele Kunst CIAP, Context K, 2004
Handleiding 02-03, Sarah Weyns, Netwerk Galerij, Aalst, 2004
Nieuw Netwerk, Luk Lambrecht, De Morgen, 9 mei 2003
Hors d'oeuvres, Alice Evermore, Netwerk Galerij Aalst, May 2003
Thief in the night, Alice Evermore, Netwerk Galerij Aalst, November 2002
Sinterklaas en dieven, Els Roelandt, Tijd/Cultuurbijlage F.E.T., November 2002
Handleiding 00-01, Netwerk Galerij, 2001
Tijd/cultuurbijlage F.E.T., Els Roelandt, 5 September 2001
Knap groepswerk, Luk Lambrecht, De Morgen, 11 August 2001
Krijtjes en ander speelgoed, Edith Doove, De Standaard, 18 February 1998
Voorwoord, Paul Ilegems, Vereniging voor het Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, 1998
Kunst op de kapstok, Marleen Wijnants, Knack Weekend, 14 September 1994
Expo, Marc Ruyters, Knack Weekend, 31 August 1994
De vrouw als tafel, Jan Braet, Knack , 8 July 1994
Kleutervlijt, Marc Ruyters, Knack Weekend, 9 March 1994
De tien van Madrid, Jan Braet, Knack, 2 February 1994
Het Rosebud Effect, Paul Ilegems, Artefactum nr 52, 1994

Catalogi en naslagwerken

Art Brussels 28 contemporary art Fair 2010, catalogus Art Brussels, 2010
Le fabuleux Destin du quotidien, catalogus, MAC,s / Grand Hornu, Hornu, 2010
Visite / cultuurcentra ontvangen Muhka - collectie , Locus & MuHKA, 2009
Door beeldhouwers gemaakt?, Johan Pas, Openbaar kunstbezit Vlaanderen, 2008
Over The Hedge, catalogus Over The Hedge, Tafa Gallery, Tianjin, China, 2007
Van Wim Delvoye tot Luc Tuymans, Inge Van Reeth, De Standaard kunstbibliotheek, 2007
Vitarti, catalogus Vitarti, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, 2007
Métissages, catalogus Mé-tissages, Miat, Ghent, 2005
A Prior-magazine #9 Goele De Bruyn/ Daan Van Golden/ Jimmie Durham, Philippe Pirotte, Paul Ilegems, Els Roelandt, 2004
Kunst in Belgie na 1975, Florent Bex, Mercatorfonds, 2001
Beeldende Kunst 1996/1997/1998, collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap aanwinsten, 2001
Reis Door Mijn Kamer, Xavier De Maistre, catalogus Opname, Breda,1995
Prospectus, catalogus Prospectus, Laken, 1994