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Greet Billet uses her theoretical knowledge (PhD in the arts) on the medium of light in her artistic practice by focusing on the representation and registration of light in its particular essence by combining different media and representations. Her oeuvre consist of temporary in situ installations, in which rule-based systems play a crucial role. The translation of light into an analogue and digital context is crucial and an initial part of her oeuvre.

The oeuvre of Leo Copers resembles an inextricable tangle of aggressive, ironic and magical delusions. One is not led to a work in a straight line and gradually, but the artist chooses the path of confusion, blasphemy, the unusual. (text: Wim Van Mulders / photo: mARTine)

Anthony Duffeleer expresses his thinking patterns by using objects which can be of different origin. They are intuitively altered or combined and become a reflective interlocutor capturing the vibrations of our society and thinking. Conventions, truths, cyclicity, humility, stigmatization and even arrogance are actors that, sometimes tackled by mental distortion or humor, determine the identity of the work. (Picture: Vita Duffeleer)

Jacopo Mazzonelli creates sculptures, installations and performances that investigate the wide border area between visual arts and music. His research is characterized by techniques and methodologies borrowed from different disciplines. By working on the interpretation and visualization of the sound dimension, he faces tools that he deconstructs, transforms, and reassembles. The focal points of his interest are the “musical gesture”, the research on the perception of rhythm and the becoming of time.

Inspired by age-old techniques, Joost Pauwaert explores what’s heavy, dangerous or explosive, on the intersection of performance and installation. His research of classical weaponry is more like a journey into wonder. While many suspect a commentary on the sad clash of weapons in our history, he is boyishly fascinated to initiate, tame and direct violence. He gained fame with a long search to collide two cannonballs, with self-made artillery. His moving art is a playful, surreal exploration, executed with care and expertise.

After gaining his masters in Textiles at LUCA School of Arts, Thomas Renwart developed a textiles practice where crafts-ship and poetic depictions of a horticultural universe constantly meet. Starting with written matter, a world is built around it, carefully translated into tactile matter. Thomas' techniques are jacquard weaving, embroidery, quilting and digital printing. Next to his work as an artist, he works as a Train Manager at the Belgian Railways, and is a full-time Jack Russell Terrier dad, of his beloved Oscar.

The reason why Manon Soetens creates art is quite simple, as it fills her with profound happiness. Art, for her, is a step towards humanism, portraying humanity in its vulnerability and simultaneously in its strength. She endeavors to amplify this sentiment by bringing forth the values that are dear to her heart, or that the world can benefit from. She conveys the vulnerability of intense concentration, inspired by beauty, through her paintings by creating simple images with a clear purpose: to evoke a specific feeling.

Marinda Vandenheede has taken a distinctive artistic path by breathing new life into weathered, discarded materials. Her body of work includes sculptural objects, paintings, and works on paper, all rooted in the beauty of decay and imperfection. Marinda's creations stand as timeless narratives, inviting viewers to contemplate the layers of time within her meticulously curated compositions. Through her exploration of discarded materials, she challenges societal norms, reconnecting art with the imperfections of existence.

The oeuvre of Philippe Van Snick (1946-2019) consists of paintings, sculptures, installations, and photography. Van Snick is well known for his typical colour palette, consisting of 10 colours (red, yellow, blue, green, orange, violet, white, black, gold and silver). Through simple supports and vibrant pigments, he emphasized the purity of painting in his creations. From 1990 onwards, Van Snick drew inspiration from nature on a regular basis. (photo: Marijke Dekeukeleire)

Yves Velter is fascinated by people from a reflective and psychological perspective, the part we are familiar with but have no control over. He examines people (incl. himself). The characters seem familiar, but difficult to understand. They are given little context and background and look coded: their eyes or entire face contains a material with a symbolic value. He created about 30 symbols, his own image codes. His oeuvre is about questions refusing answers, fears masking desires, talking without communicating, the expressive power of the unreadable.