Beautiful Moments shooting pianist Olivia Belli and her team at the wonderful Galaxy Studios

Nature as a celebration. Magnificient Tree of Life hidden in plain sight.

Beaucoup de mots et pensées à venir, de photographies évidemment bien que l'essentiel du travail soit ailleurs. Une terre riche d'informations - à l'interconnectivité évidente - où les données y ont été déposées il y a long afin de pouvoir au mieux processer les Temps présents, uniques dans l'histoire de l'Humanité.

Nous sommes arrivés à ce moment décrit dans l'Histoire, par celle des religions notamment mais bien au-delà, où ce qui est caché se révèle inexorablement. Où la Magie, qui n'est autre que l'Âme qui agit, opère.

Travailler et surtout intégrer cette parfaite et contradictoire dualité mexicaine originelle à l'image de Ometecuhtli & Omecihuatl, bien présente et transmise par les savoirs Mayas et tant d'autres, nous sera salvateur pour ce qui est à venir.

Chiapas. Mexico 2023.

FIREBIRD.

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major

Philip Glass, Hymn to the Sun from: Akhnaten 

Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird

Anders Hillborg, Liquid Marble 

Jean Sibelius, The Swan of Tuonela

En collaboration avec l'ONDRAF, le Belgian National Orchestra organise FIREBIRD. Ce concert inédit, qui fait le lien entre les arts visuels et la musique, s'agit d'une réflexion poétique sur notre société de consommation, notre gestion de l'énergie nucléaire et les défis liés à l'élimination des déchets nucléaires. Quatre œuvres musicales du XXe siècle servent de point de départ aux images vidéo de la jeune artiste belge Eva L'Hoest. À travers son travail visuel, elle entame un dialogue avec des compositions de Glass, Stravinsky, Hillborg et Sibelius.

Plus que jamais, le débat sur l'énergie est animé aujourd'hui. Outre la question de savoir comment nous allons produire de l'électricité à un prix abordable à l'avenir, nous devons également faire face au passé. Après tout, notre utilisation de l'énergie nucléaire a produit des déchets radioactifs qui doivent être récupérés. L'ONDRAF est l'institution nationale chargée de protéger en toute sécurité les matières radioactives du monde extérieur, pendant des dizaines de milliers, voire des centaines de milliers d'années. L’on a du mal à se représenter un tel horizon temporel (les scientifiques parlent de « deep time »). Où en sera l’humanité dans quelques millénaires ? Y aura-t-il encore des êtres humains ? À quoi ressembleront-ils ? Comment garantir jusque-là la transmission des informations sur les sites de stockage ? À l’occasion du 40e anniversaire de l’ONDRAF, le Belgian National Orchestra apporte avec le spectacle FIREBIRD une contribution artistique au débat sur le stockage des déchets radioactifs.   Quatre œuvres musicales du XXe siècle sont le point de départ de FIREBIRD, un croisement audacieux entre les arts visuels et la musique classique. Le chef principal Antony Hermus ouvre la soirée avec Hymn to the Sun, un aria de l’opéra Akhnaten du compositeur minimaliste américain Philip Glass. Toujours sous la direction d’Antony Hermus, l’orchestre joue ensuite la Suite de l’Oiseau de feu de Stravinsky, une des œuvres les plus impressionnantes du compositeur russe. Après cela, place à Liquid Marble, du compositeur suédois Anders Hillborg, avant que le poème symphonique Le cygne de Tuonela de Sibelius nous plonge dans une ambiance totalement différente. Ces quatre chefs-d'œuvre sont le point de départ des images vidéo d'Eva L'Hoest. Les images vidéo sont projetées en grand sur un écran spécial au-dessus de l'orchestre et dialoguent avec l'événement orchestral. L’Adagio de la Symphonie n°10 de Mahler sera proposé par l’orchestre en guise de prélude à ce concert scénique.

Halaqat - Politics of Spaces and Bodies.

Halaqat - in Arabic means multiple links and circles – aims to strengthen entanglements and build bridges between both regions. Diverse voices of emerging and renowned artists, cultural actors and experts are brought together to approach a number of themes from their own perspective.

From dance, projections, reflexions, mirrors, shadows, bodies, movements, Logos to analyzing how chess games played irl or against an AI could make us graciously and fiercly draw our path through the Illusion and our emotions.

Sublime moments and Beauty shared by amazingly talented Human Beings.

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9 artists from the Arab world and Europe - choreographers, performers and sound designers - explore with the Halaqat theme of Politics of Spaces and Bodies.

Over the course of six weeks, spread over two periods, the artists are invited to Brussels to exchange, explore their body language, and perform. Their artistic proposals bring a rich range of contemporary artistic practices, and offer a new space of togetherness, where the intimate, and the political are highly interconnected. Their performances transgress the realities at the crossroads of multiple disciplines to open up new futures perspectives.

⟶ bit.ly/Halaqat-PoSaB

FR ― 9 artistes du monde arabe et d’Europe - chorégraphes, artistes et concepteurs sonores - explorent avec Halaqat le thème de la Politique des espaces et des corps.

Pendant six semaines, réparties sur deux périodes, les artistes sont invités à Bruxelles pour échanger, explorer leur langage corporel et se produire sur scène. Leurs propositions artistiques apportent un riche éventail de pratiques artistiques contemporaines, et offrent un nouvel espace de convivialité, où l’intime et le politique sont fortement interconnectés. Leurs performances transgressent les réalités au carrefour de multiples disciplines pour ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives d’avenir.

⟶ bit.ly/Halaqat-PoSaB

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6 Performances : 2 Solos & 4 Duos

9 artists from the Arab world and Europe - choreographers, performers and sound designers - explore with the Halaqat theme of Politics of Spaces and Bodies.

Eman Hussein

Marah Haj Hussein

Alaa Minawi

Rym Hayouni et Oussema Gaidi

Nasrine Kheltent et Abdellah M.Hassak

Mayar Alexane et Lou Hoekstra

Curator & Dramaturge: Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi

Mentor: Ben Fury & Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi

Guest for kick off & studio visits: Olga de Soto, Adham Hafez, Angela Rabaglio, Micaël Florentz and Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh.

Brilliantly organised by the Goethe-Institut. With the support of Théâtre Marni & La Bellone

Halaqat - Politics of Spaces and Bodies.

Halaqat - in Arabic means multiple links and circles – aims to strengthen entanglements and build bridges between both regions. Diverse voices of emerging and renowned artists, cultural actors and experts are brought together to approach a number of themes from their own perspective.

From dance, projections, reflexions, mirrors, shadows, bodies, movements, Logos to analyzing how chess games played irl or against an AI could make us graciously and fiercly draw our path through the Illusion and our emotions.

Sublime moments and Beauty shared by amazingly talented Human Beings.

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9 artists from the Arab world and Europe - choreographers, performers and sound designers - explore with the Halaqat theme of Politics of Spaces and Bodies.

Over the course of six weeks, spread over two periods, the artists are invited to Brussels to exchange, explore their body language, and perform. Their artistic proposals bring a rich range of contemporary artistic practices, and offer a new space of togetherness, where the intimate, and the political are highly interconnected. Their performances transgress the realities at the crossroads of multiple disciplines to open up new futures perspectives.

⟶ bit.ly/Halaqat-PoSaB

FR ― 9 artistes du monde arabe et d’Europe - chorégraphes, artistes et concepteurs sonores - explorent avec Halaqat le thème de la Politique des espaces et des corps.

Pendant six semaines, réparties sur deux périodes, les artistes sont invités à Bruxelles pour échanger, explorer leur langage corporel et se produire sur scène. Leurs propositions artistiques apportent un riche éventail de pratiques artistiques contemporaines, et offrent un nouvel espace de convivialité, où l’intime et le politique sont fortement interconnectés. Leurs performances transgressent les réalités au carrefour de multiples disciplines pour ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives d’avenir.

⟶ bit.ly/Halaqat-PoSaB

__________________________________

6 Performances : 2 Solos & 4 Duos

9 artists from the Arab world and Europe - choreographers, performers and sound designers - explore with the Halaqat theme of Politics of Spaces and Bodies.

Eman Hussein

Marah Haj Hussein

Alaa Minawi

Rym Hayouni et Oussema Gaidi

Nasrine Kheltent et Abdellah M.Hassak

Mayar Alexane et Lou Hoekstra

Curator & Dramaturge: Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi

Mentor: Ben Fury & Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi

Guest for kick off & studio visits: Olga de Soto, Adham Hafez, Angela Rabaglio, Micaël Florentz and Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh.

Brilliantly organised by the Goethe-Institut. With the support of Théâtre Marni & La Bellone

''It's the simple things in Life that are the most extraordinary...''

A major double exhibition marks the return of David Hockney (1937) to the Centre for Fine Arts after almost thirty years. Even today, the British artist remains one of the most influential and inspiring artists in the world. In Works from the Tate Collection, 1954-2017 we go on a journey through Hockney’s entire career, with iconic images of the ‘swinging sixties’ in London, Southern California, his famous double portraits and vast landscapes.

“I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.”

The second exhibition demonstrates Hockney’s hunger for experimentation. The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020, presented in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, exhibits the colourful iPad paintings he created during the first lockdown. Hockney’s paintings have a timeless quality that continues to appeal to young and old alike. The now 83-year-old artist has reinvented himself once more with his most recent work.

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Artist @vanuytveneric - son and grandson of Brussels car mechanics - and his installation Scar The Car.

How do people mourn ? How do we remember someone ? How do we deal with the loss of something precious ? Every culture, every conviction, every person deals with it in different ways, with specific rituals.

Initially placed in different part of the city, the installation works as a coll(nn)ective message, remembering what has been lost and what each of us wants to hold on. Scratching as a comforting ritual, a car as a mobile sculptural medicine. Raw emotions, deep thoughts or hopeful messages intertwined 📷📷📷

Aegidium. Hdden in one of the most common / crowded place of the city is to find this little gem of a place. Many people - though living next to it sometimes for years - have no idea that behind a common door is a place that used to host popular dances and ballrooms moments, full of hidden corners and various inspirations. Considered too popular, hosting too much freedom (”debauchery”, as they like to call it) it was later bought by the Church, which quickly hided its ceiling, mirrors and most elegant parts of architecture, before leaving it to decay. 

Milady Suzy, I met this young lady during a shoot for Wilfried magazine. I had had her on the phone beforehand, in order to arrange the meeting. An already colorful discussion, which very quickly brought us to the borders of subjects such as faith, power, abortion and spirituality. When I hung up, I sent her as promised some links extending our fascinating discussion; 2 interviews with Marc Luyckx Ghisi, an equally luminous man whose journey, freedom of spirit and reflections resonate with her, as well as a documentary on the subjects of souls and consciousness. This tells about Suzanne’s openness.When I went to see her in this region of my childhood, I passed by the small islet where we were used to go swimming as children - amongst with the numerous families of the region. A little Madeleine de Proust, sweet and inevitable.What to say about our meeting, and the moment spent with her. 3 exciting hours discussing life, her family, her fights and positions, law, her dreams and her husband, the love of her life. "Another cookie Caroline ?" "No no Suzanne, now I'm afraid it will rain let's start !" "Ah, of course, well then, after". Wandering in her garden that she loves so much, she explains to me "her" trees, the nature that inspires her so much, how she was able to prevent a burglary on the other side of the Meuse, which her neighbor, an antique dealer, came to greet with some flowers. We realized, after an hour and a half, that she knows my grandparents very well and therefore "knows" who I am. A pretty funny moment. What a small coconut world we live in.She then explains to me the Meuse, which she observes and of which she knows all the moods. And the barges, those famous majestic figures that she could watch for hours on end.Lately, when catastrophic floodings hit the region & country and many other parts of the world, I called her to check on her and make sure she was safe. She told me that everything was fine, that the Meuse had come to greet the entrance to her house blocking her inside, but then turned around and wen back to normal. "Nothing to complain about, considering what other people have been through."Suzanne Boonen Moreau is the former judge of the Namur Court, among many other hats. A gentle, strong and fair woman, breathing life, Beauty and Love, in the Agape sense of the term. 84 years old, 7 children and a thousand fights, still brilliantly active, fifty years separate us and I surely don't feel any of them. May everyone have a Suzie in their life, all over the world. This one would only grow from it. Suzanne Boonen Moreau. A meeting and interview to read in Wilfried Magazine

iMAL opening show “Hyper Organisms” welcomed happy and curious minds. All summer long till 1909 !

In 2018, I carried out the FreiRaum project in Marseille and Bucharest.Below is the intro text written for the occasion. I hadn't read it again, and so to speak "forgot".It would take a long time to explain the scope of the resonances that are to be found there today. I certainly did not yet know the depth or the power of individual and collective memories - the work by Philippe Sieca, as such, is an immense nugget, a precious key - nor of course the physical scope of the confinement referred to. Without knowing it, this last one will have pushed me - like many of us, this is far from being an isolated case - to an intense reflection on the topics discussed, and more still. A long journey where past, present and future are in perpetual dialogue, where Art rubs shoulders with Sciences, Psychology, Synchronicities, Philosophy and many others. One door opening another, always.This is the 3rd strong meeting in the space of a few months with a past work - Low High Ends & Remember Istanbul / Constantinople have amply opened the way - where I realize with a few years apart that the world I thought I was observing, is in fact in perpetual dialogue, in perpetual mirror, a guide and teacher of incredible richness.This period will have destabilized more than one, and it is always complex to take a distance from the constraints of time, nevertheless I have no doubt that our view of the world is a profound vector of influence and therefore, ultimately, change.From oneself to oneself, and therefore from oneself to the other. Whoever this Other is.It’s a time of great change, both visible and invisible, and I have been able to see immensely beautiful things happening through my own lens, noting the positive changes. I will try to share the glasses on a more regular basis. As mentioned a short while ago, this is the basis of everything. // This summer, the Goethe-Institut in Brussels invited me to travel to two cities involved in the Freiraum project : Marseille and Bucharest. This in order to discover realities there, meet people and discuss about freedom. Energy, patience, observation and intuition were necessary to approach these cities, cultures, characters, etc. from scratch but, as I often say, that's where richness and encounters are to be found. It's a huge pleasure to be able to share this personal view on both cities and announce that Part I. Marseille, is now online. I hope this will give a rich insight to these complex & beautiful places --Below is an introduction to the project. Texts are in German & English. ---freedomˈfriːdəm/noun1. the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.2. the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.Though freedom can be defined from an universal point of vue, it’s one of the most intimate concept. Represented under very diverse forms following the environment, past and present times, as well as the personal and collective memory. If as such it opposes confinement, it’s necessary to understand the latter, literally and symbolically in order to visualise the possibility to self-determination in relation to ones history, situation and other trials hindering everyone's personal development.Bucharest and Marseille are complex yet passionating places. Surprisingly complementary in their visible and invisible interstices, adressing one’s past was as troubled as the other’s future. Or likely, adressing one’s future as richful as the stories told about the other’s past.During these times of division, rather than focusing on fears and differences is the importance and richness to empower cultural diversity. Goethe Institute��s FreiRaum project tends to take people’s doubts seriously without giving up on the idea of European unity.

Day 25 of the occupation of @lamonnaie.demunt by @bezetlamonnaieoccupee // @stillstanding.for.culture. Bumped into the dancers of @charleroidanse, photographed for #stillstandingforculture back in February. Oh dear they told how much their bodies missed and needed to dance and express themselves. Feeling alive again for these few minutes. Brussels 30.04.

The Belgian National Orchestra is back Home. Beauty for the heart and soul, these resonating notes #Repost @belgian_national_orchestra...🥰️🧡🥁🥁 100 days after the fire, the Belgian National Orchestra plays for the first time at BOZAR in the legendary Henry Le Boeuf Hall. The Centre for Fine Arts has worked hard to reopen it. The concert for which we are rehearsing this Wednesday will feature Baiba Skride, winner of the 2001 @queenelisabethcompetition . Conductor Hugh Wolff will perform works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Joseph Haydn and the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály. @carolinelessirephotography

City of Stories.

Comedians narrating stories at home, in French, Italian, English, Arabic and Dutch. Beautiful moments for the ears, eyes and emotions.

www.cityofstories.brussels

This project is organised by Passa Porta, Muntpunt, BOZAR, Nord-Ouest, Ville des mots 2021  et Le 140.

Infinite Love for an infinite loss.

I've met him few years ago, in a little place in Brussels where he was setting up his gear for the concert taking place later in the evening.Sadly I knew I couldn’t be present, as it was the opening of an installation I had made for the VK, another lovely place, with Madlib playing his Beat Konducta that same night.

After a busy day setting up the last details, hands fully in white paint and glue, I directly jumped in a taxi to reach him at Ateliers Claus. Wouldn’t have missed the opportunity to meet him for the whole world.

I discovered, naturally, a sweet and gentle Soul, with joyful and playful eyes. We instantly connected. He irradiated a profound feeling of serenity and wiseness. I later watched him bring his little suitcase, full of enigmatic objects - his instruments - quietly putting everything in place. 

Though the evening was richfull and busy, made of other stories and encounters, the thought of missing him play menwhilzacame to knock on my head more than once.

It always will be a little regret, but still am I grateful to have been able to cross such a man's road, even briefly.

These photos are in colors, in order to fit his vivid presence.

Thank you M Tazartès, for what you've brought to this world. Wish you to have a very peaceful rest.

Ghédalia Tazartès (12.05.1947 - 09.02.2021)

#GhedaliaTazartes #Diasporas #Transmissions

Here it is. Such a pleasure to photograph Mala for DJ Mag  cover & editorial, February edition. Thanks to Mala for his trust, the deep talks & for welcoming me into his environment. A very beautiful encounter. And to all the crew at DjMag, for which it is a pure bliss to work with. What a way to start 2021 ✨ 

Joys of Nature. Discovering Zeeland & new horizons.