Sebastiaan Bremer | Veronica – The Hundred Guilder Print

On a portrait photograph of his mother from the early seventies, Sebastiaan Bremer drew and painted a braille like surface covering her face. This intervention allows the artist to come closer to the past and break through the surface of the photograph and bring the subject to this side of the mirror.

Robert Devriendt | La Nuit Gothique 2

Robert Devriendt’s oeuvre mostly exists of small paintings. In these works, painted fragments are brought together in sequences. They generate an intimate story for the viewer. Different storylines configurate meaning in images from everyday reality. The illusionistic qualities in the pictures play a big part in his investigation into the function of images

Kendell Geers | PrayPlayPreyPay

The photograph PrayPlayPreyPay poses the question: to what degree does language liberate us from and to what extent does language incarcerate us? A very subtle shift in the word ‘Pray’ with an ‘A’ or an ‘E’ shifts the signifier from one of faith to aggression and violence. Did we invent our faith to justify our fears? Or did we use our fears to justify our faith?

Katinka Lampe | 4050219

“During the Covid pandemic of last few years, we literally got stuck in our own home bubble. Besides the fact that the whole world had to cope with an awful disease and an economic challenge, this period could have given us valuable new insides. Namely that we are social species. We can’t live without physical connection, new input, and insights. In my painting, I have used more bleak colors to reflect the feeling of loneliness experienced in quarantine.” – Katinka Lampe

Muntean/Rosenblum | Untitled („Magic remains invisible…“)

Untitled (“Magic remains invisible…”) is painted in a unique technique that Muntean/Rosenblum developed over the last few years. It is a combination of oil and pastel chalks which allows us to create a maximum of luminosity. Like all their paintings it is based on appropriated material from the almost unlimited images provided by mass and social medias.

Erwin Olaf | Fall – Isabel

“I was intrigued by the idea of a portrait in which something is out-of-sync,” explains Erwin Olaf. “It became a new type of sexy, to photograph a beautiful model blinking at the wrong moment, using a camera angle that is slightly wrong. It is disturbing to see this incorrect fraction of a second frozen in a portrait.” – Erwin Olaf

Hans Op de Beeck | Dancer

In the picture Sea of Tranquillity – Dancer, a set photo taken during the filming of Op de Beeck’s movie Sea of Tranquillity (2010), we see a most colorfully dressed Brazilian dancer standing on a pitch-dark, deserted part of the stage, as if standing in a silent void, detached from the circus of spotlights and glamour, almost clumsily lost, in a moment of reflection or doubt, in-between performances.

Gilleam Trapenberg | Nadira

“The reason why it is such an important portrait for me is mainly because it shows the strength of the Curaçao woman. There is a strong stereotypical view that in the Caribbean and especially Curaçao, it is mainly the women who are in charge at home. The men basically have nothing to say. I find that a very interesting contrast with, of course, the macho culture that is prevalent there.” – Gilleam Trapenberg

WonderBuhle | Fixing a broken perspective

“I understand my artistic practice as a space between my inner soul, my dreams and my identity. I communicate my views from where I am standing as a black youth in South African society and the world at large. South Africa is in a moment of self-realization; reflecting and embracing its cultural diversities, whilst rewriting its stories through the lenses of young people who are curious, like myself.” – WonderBuhle

Film credits: BKhz Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. Film and editing by Earl Abrahams.