Spoorzoekers
[NL/EN below] “Spoorzoekers” ging op zoek naar de materiële restanten van wat de kolonisatie van Congo heeft betekend voor de gemeente Sint-Pieters-Woluwe. De belangrijkste factor daarin was de aanleg van de Tervurenlaan en de tram en treinsporen die voor de wereldtentoonstelling van 1897 werden aangelegd. Op die wereldexpo presenteerde Leopold II zijn kolonisatieproject aan de […]
Memories Gone Wild
An exhibition of the Fictive Archive Investigations group Back in the days when covid locked down our world, I answered a call from Claire Ducène who was looking for artists-researchers working in the field of history and archives, to start up a group project reflecting about the kind of work we did. After an extensive […]
Goedele
In the spring of 2022 I was commissioned by the ‘Sint Goedele Scholengroep‘ to have a multitude of images made and a few videos produced for internal and external use. The group is comprised of 13 creches, 21 kindergarden and primary schools and four middle schools, each with their own profile and specialities. They all […]
There Here Now
Installation Performance for viola, masks & moving image First try-out at the Tristero House (Schaarbeek, Brussels) on April 8 2022 There Here Now is a new project I’m working on with viola player Sigrid Keunen. The sculptural/music performance she was working on counterpointed nicely with an audiovisual version of the Marklin series I was developping. […]
Marklin
The latest residency at ZSenne Artlab has turned the place into a full-on exhibition space, presenting a series called ‘Marklin’. I have previously experimented with the series during the very first ‘Archive of Untold Stories’ but now I’ve taken the step of making the large format prints this series needs to be gazed upon. ‘Marklin’ […]
Joe English
The family archive has proven to be a great source of inspiration. Two photography projects sprouted from the historical research: ‘Met Kop en Schouders‘ is an exhibition commissioned by ADVN to accompany the research, publication and database about ‘Heldenhulde‘. English designed the headstones this organisation provided during WW1. In ‘Mystic Land‘ I went on a […]
Photography
As a kid, my bedroom was right next to my dad’s darkroom and I spent quite some time discovering the magic of developping film and photos. Photography is a constant since he handed me his old Canonet camera in my early teens. I’ve practiced photography in many different ways, from the crossprocessed lomo’s during the […]
Universal Minutes Covid19 ed.
During the quarantine I took part in a Random Scream project ‘Universal Minutes’ conceived by my friend Davis Freeman. From march 23d to may 1st, at 17:21pm sharp, I took pictures together with my fellow photographers, wherever we were. I took a batch of perished polaroids from the archives and took several shots within that one minute. […]
The archive of untold stories
I had the pleasure of being invited for a residency of two weeks at ZSenne Art Lab. The intention was to research and experiment with different forms of presentation, looking for solutions to tell stories with pictures and objects in a different and personal way. I came up with the archive as a form of […]
Mystisch Land
In 2016 I started researching the whereabouts of Joe English during WW1 and consequently visited all these places. His get-away from the besieged city of Antwerp towards the Belgian coast eventually bringing him to Calais was one of the trips I attempted to do as he did, on foot. I described the research and the […]