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		<title>Index</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:24:10 +0000</pubDate>

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&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Claire Ducène&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Poetics of Fragility&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Visual artist based in Brussels
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	Chapter (1)~ Archives of the Intimacy&#38;nbsp;




Chapter (2)~ Cartography of Spaces:

Unknown Worlds and Labyrinths




Chapter (3)&#38;nbsp;
~ Dreamlike Writings

	Chapter (4)&#38;nbsp;
~ Living Testimonies:&#38;nbsp;
Giving Voice to the Invisible

Chapter (5) ~ Collective Memories

Chapter (6)&#38;nbsp;
~ Curated Exhibitions
The Archive as a Medium


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		<title>Archives of the intimacy</title>
				
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		<dc:creator>Claire Ducène</dc:creator>

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Archives of the Intimacy
I.“Souvenirs 2013-2015”

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Archives of the Intimacy &#38;nbsp; 
II.“
The Invisible Collection”




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Archives of the Intimacy&#38;nbsp; 

III. 

“
Chapters”
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Notes
1 Synopsis - In the reproduction of the dining room of the artist’s childhood home, the viewer follows the artist as she wanders among her doubles, like a living tableau - a “tableau vivant” of a character who dreams, who recalls her memories associated with this space.The installation was presented in the heart of the permanent exhibition space of the Museum of Fine Arts in Charleroi (Belgium), like an alcove, a moment of pause.



Techniques - A living room-sized installation featuring the backdrop from the video “Tableau vivant”, projected in the installation “Souvenirs 2013–2015”.All of the pieces on display echo the passing and repetition of time.



Archives - Family archives, 
old photographs, and original furnitures from the artist's childhood home (smoked glass table, console table, bedside lamp).

Datas - Hainaut Visual Arts Prize Exhibition, Charleroi Museum of Fine Arts (BE), 2015 (Laureate) 
Captions - 
1/ 
Entrance to the installation "Souvenirs 2013-2015" in a black-box of the museum's permanent collection; 
2/ Installation "Souvenirs 2023-2015" composed of the reproduction of a dining room and surrounded by videos, photographs printed on plexiglass, ink-drawn books, original and manipulated family photos. 
3/ Tableau vivant, Video, 12’59’’, 2015Full video -&#38;gt; here



2 

Synopsis -The exhibition ‘The Invisible Collection’ is a life-size reconstruction of a mental labyrinth where the artist's personal stories intertwine with Stefan Zweig's novella titled “The Invisible Collection”, highlighting the processes of imagination and literature.‘The Invisible Collection’ tells the story of a blind collector who still believes he owns an incredible collection of engravings, even though his family had to part with them. The collector speaks emotionally about images that are invisible but which he can touch and ‘feel’. 
Around a museum that cannot be seen, composed of blurred images, texts and fragments, a mental labyrinth unfolds, both present and absent, consisting of a maze of intertwined galleries. 
As Louis Scutenaire said: ‘Memory is a museum room where one often gets lost.’ Techniques - Life-size maze and photo printings of erased life-size photographic collages permeate the exhibition space;The display cases evoke museum archives, and fragments of Zweig's texts are recited and whispered throughout the space.




Archives -  “La Collection Invisible” of Stefan Zweig, Photographs of the artist's childhood home &#38;amp; handwritten manuscripts by Jean-Pol DucèneDatas - The former bourgeois residence of the TRE-A gallery, Mons (BE), 2020

Captions - 1/ “Invisible Galleries”, white book bound and composed of collages and digital photographs, 18 x 13 cm, 2018

; 2/ “The Imaginary Museum”, white wooden structure composed of a print on plexiglass (192 x 112 cm), 2018;3/ 

Installation view "The Invisible Collection”, life-size photocopy print of the set, framed paintings and drawings, sound excerpts from "The Invisible Collection" by Stefan Zweig

3 

Synopsis - The multimedia installation ‘Chapters’ is a tribute to the power of literature and writing, to the book as an object, and to the mental projections generated by the imagination when constructing a narrative: staging oneself, writing a&#38;nbsp; script, creating one's own characters with whom one identifies, wandering through landscapes that transform with each turn of the page.

Techniques - 
Installation consisting of a bookcase filled with books, photographs and drawings;Surrounding the bookcase: video, texts and photographic prints on Plexiglas
Archives - 
“The Earth and the Reveries of Will: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter” by Gaston Bachelard;&#38;nbsp;Quotations from Paul Eluard and Jorge Luis Borges.Datas - Exhibition “Women”, Galerie Plateforme, Wavre (BE), 2024

Captions - 1/

View of the "Chapters" exhibition, an installation composed of video, handwritten letters, paintings, drawings, text fragments, photographic prints on plexiglass, photographs on paper, films, engravings

; 2/ 

Chapter I, video excerpts, 2017, 3 min 52 s, 2017Synopsis - A character enters an open book and imagines her own story, between wanderings and interpretations. A coincidence is then created between the images in the book and the mental images created.
Full video -&#38;gt; here








	

Chapter (1)~ Archives of the Intimacy





















‘Caring for traces, remains, and memories is also creating possible futures.” 

&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; - Deborah Bird Rose’
In her installations, Claire Ducène transforms family
archives into living material.


Photographs, letters and objects are not simply preserved: they are reactivated in space,
transforming the intimate album into
a sensitive and shared experience.


The artist reveals their fragility – crumbling paper,
uncertain memories – while giving them new life through drawing, ink or
collage. 
In this way, her artistic gestures become extensions of memory.


These personal fragments, delicately staged, transcend the
intimate to become a collective mirror: everyone finds their own gaps, their
own memories.


The installation thus becomes a place of memory and
resilience, where the ephemeral
finds a form of eternity.



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The Office, family archives, 2015

	

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Chapter I, video excerpts, 2017, 3 min 52 s
A character enters an open book and imagines her own story, wandering and interpreting. A coincidence is then created between the images in the book and the mental images.


	
	
	
	
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		<title>Cartography of space</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:24:08 +0000</pubDate>

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Cartography of Spaces I.“Croisière au Cercle Polaire. Ete 1929”
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Cartography of Spaces 



II.

“Infinite Borders
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Cartography of SpacesIII. “Maisons d'Ecritures”



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Notes1

Synopsis - In July 1929, Léon Losseau, a Belgian lawyer, boarded the Brazza, a huge and majestic cruise ship, to discover the fabulous landscapes of the Arctic Circle. 
He crossed the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea and reached the landscapes he had dreamed of, the glaciers and fjords at the end of the world: a journey with spectacular panoramas that Léon Losseau archived and immortalised in photographs.
The exhibition ‘Cruise to the Arctic Circle. Summer 1929’ retraces his physical journey of yesteryear, which merges with Claire Ducène's 2018 voyage, where eras, images and archives intertwine.
 Techniques -&#38;nbsp;
Multidisciplinary exhibition (video installations, paintings, photographs, drawings, ‘real’ and fictional archives);
Invitation of Italian sound artist Giulia Deval and Norwegian photographer Stig Marlon Weston; 
Illustration of the book ‘Les nombeuses étendues ouvertes de la mer’ (The Many Open Spaces of the Sea);
Written archives - The 1929 archives, photographs and library of Léon Losseau &#38;amp; documents/images/photographs collected during the travel in 2018.
Datas - La Maison Losseau, Mons (BE), 

2018Captions&#38;nbsp;- 
1/
“Layers of Stories”, India ink on paper, 2018


 2/ (slide show) “Travel Book” composed of notes, research, texts, drawings, 2018 &#38;amp; 
The Imaginary Journey of Léon Losseau, digital collage from the photographs of Léon Losseau, 2018







2 


Synopsis - 

The variations of ‘Infinite Borders’ represent an undefined, imaginary place.Drawing inspiration from ancient archives such as Egyptian volumes and medieval atlases, it is about to blur the lines between time and the production of documents.These slow-produced works seek to create confusion with the imprecise archives of earlier eras, created using ancient presses or fragments of documents.


 Techniques - Installations consisting of prints and displays of archival documents and fictional archives
Archives - 

Egyptian volumes, medieval atlases, engraved wax tablets, palimpsests, libraries of yesteryear, etc.

Datas - 
Exhibitions by the Fictive Archive Investigation group, ISELP (BE) &#38;amp; Malta Society of Arts (MA), 2025

Captions - 1/ Excerpt of&#38;nbsp;Volumen de territoria ad infinitum, photolithography on Japanese Banshi Tsuru Heritage Washi paper 25 gr, 2022

 2/ (slide show) 

Exhibition view "Two Moons &#38;amp; Two Suns," Atlas of Open Stories, monotypes on paper series of 6 rolls of 90 x 300 cm, 2025

 &#38;amp; detail of one of the monotype of the Atlas





3

Synopsis - For the publication of its first collection, La Maison Losseau decided to bring together three writers to symbolically evoke their mental spaces, their ‘homes’ where their writing unfolds.
Claire Ducène created the illustrations and designed the book “Maisons d'Ecritures” with printer Bruno Robbe.




Techniques - An artist's book composed of illustrations of ink stains that unfold as the story progresses, like the ink of a writer or printer.
A work in which the authors' three booklets are conceived differently, multiplying the possibilities of publication by diverting the map and the pages to be cut out.
Archives - Textes des écrivains : “Murs porteurs”, C. Van Acker – “La Maison”, A. Cornil – “Rien ici n’arrête la lumière”, Éric Piette

Datas - 


Première édition de La Maison Losseau,&#38;nbsp;

2021

Captions - (slide show) “Inked Tales”, serie of prints of photographic digital collages and Indian ink, 2021. Created for the book "Maisons d'Ecriture", La Maison Losseau Editions












	Chapter (2)
~ Cartography of Spaces
Unknown Worlds 
and Labyrinths
“Cartography of Spaces” explores cartography as a way of making inner and imaginary worlds visible. 
The works are based on journeys, real or imagined, which are transformed into sensitive maps where each line becomes a possible path, questioning the boundary between travelled space and invented space, where memory and imagination intertwine.

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Where are you in my wanderings?, mental map printed on watercolour paper, 2022

In this research, she makes a reference to Pierre Bayard who, in his book ‘How to Talk About Places You've Never Been’, shows how territories we have not travelled through can nevertheless influence our relationship with the world.
 
‘Unknown worlds’ thus become raw material: they resemble each other without us ever having set foot in them, and yet each retains its uniqueness. 
Claire Ducène approaches them as fragments of a universal and intimate cartography. 
The labyrinth becomes a central metaphor for this work. 
It symbolises both the complexity of human journeys and the impossibility of reaching a single truth.

Maps and labyrinths interact in her installations as representations of mental territories: spaces where we orient ourselves less with coordinates than with emotions, memories and projections.

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Exhibition’s view «Croisière au Cercle Polaire. Eté 1929», mix with archives of Léon Losseau and artpieces from Claire Ducène, La Maison Losseau 
(c) A. Breyer
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		<title>Dreamlike Writings</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:24:09 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Claire Ducène</dc:creator>

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Dreamlike Writings


 I.

“House 27”



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Dreamlike Writings 

II. ”Stream of Consciousness”

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	Note


Notes1

Synopsis 
‘House27’ is the reconstruction of a dream, that of a strange house where a character wanders in search of his/her history.
Over the course of four chapters, the viewer discovers the reconstructed spaces of an imaginary house and follows the dreamer through the different rooms, but also seeks to understand why this place haunts her/him: a kind of imaginary puzzle that unfolds throughout the story, through its reconstructions. 
Techniques &#38;nbsp;
- Performance 28’ on stage at the Central Theatre in La Louvière, ARTour Festival, La Louvière (BE), 2021;
- Audio and photographic book published by Transonic and the FWB, 2023;
- Dreamlike lecture (45’) at Le Vecteur, Charleroi, 2024.

Collaboration 

Ghostwriters with Christophe Bailleau, a French pluridisciplinary artist (music but also short films/video, photography, soundtracks for theatre, dance, installations, writing…) based in Belgium, Christophe Bailleau has officiated for more than twenty years at the on the edge of electronica, acoustics, ambient, concrete music or even harsh noise (within the very radical duo PRISM), with around twenty solo releases, a lot of collaborative projects and participations in numerous compilations of experimental music.


Archives 
- Images: fragments of the childhood home of Claire Ducène, places across Europe that resemble the artist's dreamlike images (Brussels, Barcelona, etc.)- Texts: excerpts from George Perec, Gaston Bachelard, René Magritte, Aby Warburg, Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Bayard, among others.&#38;nbsp;
Datas - 2021-2025

Captions - 
1/ (slide show) 
Excerpts from the video of "House 27," 28 minutes, 2020

2/&#38;nbsp;

Performance on stage at the Central Theatre in La Louvière, ARTour Festival, La Louvière (BE), 2021


Full video &#38;amp; music - here


2 Synopsis - Inspired by the concept of ‘stream of consciousness’, the sound video mapping titled ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was projected onto the façade of the Hôtel de Graty”. This collaborative multimedia project explores the continuity of human thoughts, images and sensations.
Artists and writers with ties to the city of Mons appear as silhouettes around the windows of the Hôtel, creating a fluid dynamic that evokes the passage of time and pays tribute to the city's cultural richness.
The sound composition combines electronic music and excerpts from local poetry recited by the artist, who becomes the voice of all the writers.&#38;nbsp;

Techniques &#38;nbsp;
Monumental sound video projected via video mapping onto the Hôtel de Grati (Mons)
Collaboration Ghostwriters (avec Christophe Bailleau)

Archives 
- Archives of the Museum of Archives and Literature (AML): manuscript by E. Verhaeren;
- Centre for the Archives of Communism in Belgium (CArCoB) on the struggles in the mining basin;
- Fragments of texts by writers from Mons or associated with the city: M. Bervoets, F. Dumont, C. Lejeune, M. Moreau, E. Verhaeren. Datas - 2021-2025

Captions - 1/ (slide show) 

Original archive of the manuscript "Les aubes" by Emile Verhaeren, 1898 Deposit of the Royal Library at the AML (Archives and Museum of Literature), FS16 00049 &#38;amp;&#38;nbsp;

Excerpts from the video of "House 27," 28 minutes, 2020

2/ View of La Maison Graty the 29th of January 2025 during Mons en Lumières

	Chapter (3) ~ Dreamlike Writings

"Several times a month, I dream of the same space.
The rooms are arranged in the same way. 
I know this house, and it is inhabited by undefined beings."

Dreams, by their elusive nature, offer unparalleled artistic freedom. They open up imaginary possibilities that transcend rational thinking and allow us to explore new forms of narrative and representation.
 
These artworks explore this mysterious dimension through various media, where sound, video and performance convey the shifting and fragmented experience of reverie. 
This section brings together works that combine her own imaginary spaces with in-depth archival research, used as compositional material to give shape to dream spaces.
 
Real documents thus become reinvented fragments of memory, which feed into the poetic writing of her dream worlds, produced in collaboration with sound artist Christophe Bailleau, with whom she forms the duo ‘Ghostwriters’.

In House 27, first presented as a performance on a theatre stage, then deployed as a dreamlike performance lecture, the dream becomes a living, guided narrative. The work invites the viewer to traverse an inner territory oscillating between memory and poetic evocation.
With Stream of Consciousness, a video mapping projected onto the façade of a Hôtel in Mons, it is the visual movement itself that becomes dreamlike material, echoing the characteristics of a cinematic tracking shot and the floating logic of dreams. 
Through the diversity of their formats – performance, video, projection – these creations question the porous boundary between reality and imagination. 
They reveal the impossibility of defining its contours or retaining its forms, while preserving the evocative power of dreams, between mystery and fragility.
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Video extract of the video “Stream of Consciousness” when a hand writes poetry in the sky, 2025</description>
		
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		<title>Living Testimonies</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:25:23 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Claire Ducène</dc:creator>

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Living Testimonies  


I.

 “Bruxelles Invisible”
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Living Testimonies  


II.

“Ressouvenirs”&#60;img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e108a7ec9d672d9e98800043b20273663f9b55d0b3e985302c344f68a7a175e/ressouvenirs.jpg" data-mid="239521228" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/7e108a7ec9d672d9e98800043b20273663f9b55d0b3e985302c344f68a7a175e/ressouvenirs.jpg" /&#62;

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Notes1 Synopsis - The installation ‘Invisible Brussels’ is the result of meetings with visually impaired people who shared their perceptions and feelings about Brussels and its neighbourhoods, but also about their disabilities.
These meetings took place at the Royal Institute for the Deaf and Blind (IRSA) and at La Ligue Braille in Brussels. 
Techniques -&#38;nbsp;
Soundcloud with recordings;
Exhibition of the installation ‘Bruxelles Invisible’ with listening stations;Work in progress for a sound and tactile map and publication.
Collaboration - BNA-BBOT&#38;nbsp;creates sound archives of the present by collecting, archiving and using testimonies, conversations and soundscapes.
Archives -&#38;nbsp;Memories of teenagers from IRSA and seniors from La Ligue Braille 
Datas - 2024 and on progress
Captions - 
1/ Interview with Jean-Pierre at La Ligue Braille, November 2024
2/ Group picture during a visit of the Folon Foundation in Brussels as a part of the workshops, June 2024
To listen the testimonies - here


2 

Synopsis -

Stimulate memory, accompany people in their reminiscences, happy memories.
‘Ressouvenirs’ is an immersive installation created from the memories of people with Alzheimer's disease and residents collected in 2023 in the nursing homes of Chambon-sur-Voueize and Evaux-les-Bains in the Creuse region.

Techniques - 


Multidisciplinary exhibition consisting of recordings of residents, interviews with the team, as well as memory maps, installations dedicated to specific participants with their memories, etc.



&#38;nbsp;Datas - Exhibition at La Maison des Patrimoines, Bénévent-l’Abbaye (FR) 

Captions - 
1/ 

"I don't remember anymore, but it must have been beautiful," fragment from the work "Pieces of Paper" where torn pieces of paper repeat phrases collected from elderly people with Alzheimer's disease in nursing homes about their love stories

2/ Excerpt of «Chez Borges» of Alberto Manguel (2003) exhibited discretely inside the exhibition «Ressouvenirs», 2025 
Translation (talking about Silvana Ocampo): “In the last years of her life (she died in 1943 at the age of ninety-eight), suffering from Alzheimer's disease, she wandered around her apartment, unable to remember who she was, nor where she was. One day, a friend caught her reading a collection of short stories. Full of enthusiasm, she offered to tell this friend (whom, of course, she did not recognize, but by this time she had become used to the presence of strangers) something wonderful she had just discovered. It was one of the stories from one of her early books, and one of her best known, Irene's Autobiography. The friend listened and told her she was right. It was a masterpiece.“

To listen the testimonies - here










	Chapter (4) ~ 

Living Testimonies: Giving Voices to the Invisible



“We must&#38;nbsp;

close our eyes&#38;nbsp;

to see.”


– 

James Joyce



In this section, the viewer explores memory through those whose voices are often silenced or obscured.

With Bruxelles Invisible, we embark on a journey that brings forth another form of cartography: Brussels is mapped out through the stories, memories and favourite places of visually impaired people. This project composes a sensitive atlas, a city recomposed by their perceptions, where landmarks shift and contours are redrawn as the voices unfold.

And with Ressouvenirs, carried out with elderly people with memory loss and people with Alzheimer's disease, Claire Ducène collects intimate accounts of love stories or memorable moments that mark a lifetime. The very term ressouvenir — “to remember, to evoke again” — conveys the spirit of the project: it is less about faithfully restoring the past than about welcoming the fragments that remain, those that are replayed through the narrative, sometimes fragmented but always charged with emotion. 
These words, collected over time and with kindness, give a voice and a place back to those whom the disease tends to erase.
For years, she wrote private biographies for others, with no intention of publishing them. In the short story Ghostwriter Library, she explores this practice: that of a writer whose presence fades behind the stories of others, embracing voluntary invisibility. Claire takes a back seat to better bring out the voices of others.
 Whether it's voices weakened by illness, perspectives that compose a city differently, or stories written in the shadows for others, her work weaves a constellation of living archives. 
Here, giving voice is not about filling a void but offering a welcoming space, an active listening that allows these stories — intimate, fragmentary, invisible — to become shared memory.


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“The Imaginary Archives of Sainte-Alvère”, a serie of notebooks and recordings, 2021.
In a village in the Dordogne region, all the archives have disappeared. 
Based on encounters with and recordings of the villagers, Claire Ducène has reconstructed emotional archives about the inhabitants of the village.

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		<title>Collective Memories</title>
				
		<link>https://claireducene.be/Collective-Memories</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:33:06 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Claire Ducène</dc:creator>

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	Collective Memories



 I.

“The House of Eternity”
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Collective Memories 
II.“Out of the Walls”
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Notes



1 Synopsis - ‘’The House of Eternity“ is a multimedia installation paying tribute to miners who lost their lives in the mines and dureing the protests in 1930.
All the images are brought together in a structure reminiscent of a mine tunnel, a veritable ‘house of eternity’, so named by the artist in reference to Egyptian tombs.

Techniques - Monumental wooden structure composed of photographs printed on Plexiglas and glass and video projectionsCollaboration - 
Design - Claire Ducène
Structure created by Endless House Collective 

Endless House Collective is a collective formed by visual artists Claire Ducène and Nicolas Riquette in 2016.Passionate about houses, outdoor and indoor spaces, they constantly revisit the concept of the ‘endless house’ and have exhibited in unusual spaces. Their installations consist of huge labyrinthine wooden structures inside which archives, documents, videos, sculptures, paintings, engravings, drawings, etc. are mixed together. --&#38;gt; More infos: here



Production - THANKSgalerie
 Archives -&#38;nbsp;Archives of the Belgian Communist Party, contemporary landscapes, family archivesDatas - Group exhibition entitled ‘Pulsations. Visages d’une Cité’ at the Museum of Fine Arts in Mons, where the artists explore the city from every angle, 2025

Captions - 
1/&#38;nbsp;

View of the installation "House of Eternity”,
 Museum of Fine Arts of Mons, 2025


2/Personal archive of Claire Ducène where her grandmother Claire Thône poses in front of miners' lamps, Charleroi in the ‘60s






2&#38;nbsp; 

Synopsis - The Endless House collective has created an architectural structure in the heart of the glass roof of the Uccle Cultural Centre, evoking an aviary from which memories collected from elderly residents of the Tillens nursing home escape.
‘Out of the Walls’ takes us into an architectural space dedicated to the memories of its inhabitants: from migratory birds to spaces between the past and the present.I don't remember anymore, but there was the old mill street, a street that sloped steeply down to Chaussée Saint-Job, but it joined Chaussée Saint-Job much further along the road. It was the neighbourhood where lots of people played with pigeons and kept pigeons at home. - Meeting on 13 April 2023 -&#38;nbsp;

Mr Charles talks about the carrier pigeons of Uccle



Techniques -&#38;nbsp;Monumental sculptural architecture representing an aviary from which Mr Charles' memories escape through his voice, but also through sculptures, photographs and archives.
Collaboration - 


Endless House Collective Archives - Mr Charles' memories Datas - The entrance hall of the Uccle Cultural Centre (CCU), 2023

Captions - 
1/&#38;nbsp;

Endless House X _ Out of the Walls, installation created in the hall of the Uccle Cultural Center transformed into an aviary of memories, mixed techniques: monumental sculptural structure, video, images, sound recordings 
2/&#38;nbsp;

Residents of Maison Tillens, including Mr. Charles, sound workshop, 2022

	Chapter (5) ~ Collective Memories

"The past is not a natural element. It belongs to memory 
- that is to say, to a poetic rather than a science... 
Memory is a process, not a result."
– Georges Didi-Huberman

In large-scale scenic installations, spaces are considered where memory is brought to life through the narration of collective stories.
 
Often created in collaboration with Endless House Collective (shared with Nicolas Riquette), these projects explore how history, whether personal or political, is inscribed in places and bodies.

With La&#38;nbsp;Maison d'éternité, inspired by the narratology of Egyptian tombs, the aim is not to pay tribute to dignitaries, but to those who worked in the mines of her native region, La Louvière. The memory of the workers, their struggles and their silences find here a symbolic space that celebrates the dignity of the miners and their place in a collective memory that is often forgotten.

In Out of the Walls, the focus turns to the Uccle area in Brussels. 
The testimonies collected evoke pigeon fancier societies, where carrier pigeons took flight, inscribing an emotional and shared memory in the sky. 
The whole is conceived as a vast immaterial aviary where these voices are set free and rejoin a bygone world, imbued with a gentle and vibrant nostalgia.


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		<title>Curated exhibitions. The archive as a medium</title>
				
		<link>https://claireducene.be/Curated-exhibitions-The-archive-as-a-medium</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:45:23 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Claire Ducène</dc:creator>

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Curated exhibitions 




I.

 “Memories Gone Wild”

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Curated exhibitions 


II.



“Two Moons &#38;amp; Two Suns”

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Notes






1



 The process - Since March 2021, 16 researchers and visual artists whose research subject is the relationship between the archive and the fiction have been collaborating in a group initiated by visual artist Claire Ducène.

The project, entitled “Fictive Archive Investigations”, is hybrid and collaborative, bringing together a diversity of practices, ages and backgrounds. It is all about seeing the archive as a genuine source of material for creative work.

The exhibition Memories Gone Wild, conceived by this group, is a work of fiction divided into four sections, like so many narrative spaces in which each of the works exhibited offers a personal and fictional interpretation of the archive.&#38;nbsp;
w/ Philippe Beck (BE), Elise Billiard Pisani (FR) &#38;amp; Margerita Pulè (MT), Giordano Bruno do Nascimento (DE &#38;amp; BR), Balthazar Blumberg (FR), Juan Cárdenas (CO), Alexis Choplain &#38;amp; Noëlie Plé (BE), Céline Cuvelier (BE), Claire Ducène (BE), Patrick Gaïaudo (FR), Cecilia Hurtado (MEX), Stéphanie Roland (BE), Agata Skupniewicz (PO), Sam Vanoverschelde (BE), Julian Walker (UK)&#38;nbsp;

Datas &#38;amp; Events


Group exhibition;Series of lectures &#38;amp; participatory workshops; Performances.
27 Jan.2023 → 25 Mar.2023 ISELP, Brussels

Captions 
1/ Poster of the exhibition “Memories Gone Wild” 
2/ Exhibition’s views (c) JJSerol



2&#38;nbsp;

The process - Second iteration of the project following the same research interests, and also working through a collaborative and multi-disciplinary process, this time focusing on the relationship between the island, the fictional, and the archive. 
The group formed a residency in Dingli, Malta in late 2024, and showed a group exhibition, titled “Two Moons and Two Suns”, at Palazzo de la Salle in Valletta.

The group of 13 artists have come together to collaborate through their artistic practice and previous work around fictive archives. Many of the artists have conducted extensive research in this area; between them, the group represents a network of subversion and questioning around archival practice that is unique in its purpose.
w/ Elise Billiard Pisani &#124; Balthazar Blumberg &#124; Josephine Burden &#124; Anna Calleja &#124; Céline Cuvelier &#124; Katel Delia &#124; Claire Ducène &#124; Axel Fourmont &#124; Bettina Hutschek &#124; Margerita Pulè &#124; Stéphanie Roland &#124; Matthew Schembri &#124; Raffaella Zammit 



Datas &#38;amp; Events

Opening night (concert, reading &#38;amp; projection);
Group exhibition; 
Symposium “Fiction(s) in archives”.
3 July – 20 August 2025 
Upper Galleries, Malta Society of Art, Palazzo de la Salle, Republic St, Valletta (MT)



Captions



1/ Poster of the exhibition “Two Moons &#38;amp; Two Suns” by 2point32/ (slide show) Exhibition’s views
 3/&#38;nbsp;

Balthazar Blumberg_Whole Story Glass engraving drawing photography projection 2024–2025

(c) ElisaVonBrockdorff




4/&#38;nbsp;

Elise Billard-Pisani &#38;amp; Margerita Pulè_Farfara. Le fils avant le père_Mixed-media installation 2022 


(c) 

ElisaVonBrockdorff










	Chapter (6) ~ 

Curated ExhibitionsThe Archive as a Medium

Alongside her artistic practice, Claire Ducène works as a curator, where archives become a medium in their own right, conveying multiple narratives and infinite forms. The goal is not only to display documents, but to reveal the creative power of archives as a language capable of forging links between the past, present and imagination.


With the exhibition ‘Dissolve and Dissolve’, presented at POELP and co-curated with sabine sil, the exhibition’s statement initiated a dialogue between artists on the ephemeral and transformation. 
Rémy Hans presented a project inspired by botanists' archives, with drawings placed outdoors and exposed to the elements. 
The Muesli collective presented a video in which an ice core transforms into liquid under the polarising effect. 
These works coexisted in a poetic tension, where each moment escaped any attempt at fixation, recalling the fragility of the traces themselves.
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Exhibition’s view Dissolve &#38;amp; Dissolve, artworks by Rémy Hans, POELP, 2025 - Curators: Claire Ducène &#38;amp; sabine sil (c) Antoine Fallon


This questioning continues with Fictive Archive Investigations, a collective of which Claire is the artistic director, born out of a desire to experiment with the archive as a space for fiction, research and collective creation. 
The project is part of a long-term process, which begins with an open call, followed by a selection of artists, monthly meetings, a collective residency and exhibitions.
To date, two editions have been produced: &#38;nbsp;Memories Gone Wild - ISELP, Brussels, January–March 2023 and Two Moons and Two Suns (Valletta, Malta, July–August 2025), co-curated with Margerita Pulè.

A third edition is currently in preparation, as well as an academic collection that will explore the contemporary potential of the fictional archive, confirming both the artistic and theoretical dimensions of this project.


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Claire Ducène (°1986, La Louvière)&#38;nbsp;
 Visual artist based in Brussels.
She has been developing a practice that combines personal archives, collective memory and visual fiction for many years. Her works take the form of installations (archives, videos photographs, engravings, texts, drawings) and collaborative projects.




DOCUMENTS
︎Full Bio&#38;nbsp;


FRENCH here 
ENGLISH here


 


︎ Full CV
 &#38;nbsp;here 





︎Full Portfolio
 FRENCH&#38;nbsp;here 
ENGLISH here





“I grew up in La Louvière, a town marked by deindustrialisation and the visible traces of its decline. The urban environment – wastelands, ruins, damaged landscapes – shaped my perception of the world as a fragile, unstable space, constantly changing. 
Living in this context developed in me a particular attraction to the past, to what disappears or falls apart. The ruins were not just a backdrop: they structured an intimate experience of everyday life and collective memory.This early experience has nourished my artistic work around a form of anxiety, how to retain or bear witness to what is fading away, how to bring into existence what is threatened with oblivion.

In my work, this influence is reflected in the use of fragments, discontinuous elements, attention to fragile details and minimal gestures, and the emphasis on slow temporalities, traces and partial memories. 
My work does not seek to reconstruct what has been lost, but rather to give space to fragility as a universal experience. Having spent my childhood in a territory marked by ruin, I am led to explore, through art, the way in which places, objects and images still carry the memory of what has disappeared.”


Artistic director of the Fictive Archive Investigations collective 


︎https://thinktankfictivearchives.wordpress.com/

Co-founder of the Endless House collective with visual artist Nicolas Riquette 



︎https://cargocollective.com/endlesshousecollective




Co-founder of the Ghostwriters’ duo with sound artist Christophe Bailleau 

Project House 27&#38;nbsp;

︎http://transcultures.be/2023/09/11/house27-ghostwriters/






"Bruxelles Invisible", a long-term collaboration with BNA-BBOTWorkshops at IRSA &#38;amp; La Ligue Braille about visual impairment and wandering through the town of Brussels



︎ Click here to listen to the Soundcloud of “Bruxelles Invisible” (FR)&#38;nbsp;














"Ressouvenirs" is a serie of recorded testimonials from people with Alzheimer's disease, elderly people, and care home workers in France.



︎ Click here to listen to the Soundcloud of “Ressouvenirs” (FR) 







 &#38;nbsp; Artist STATEMENT
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Claire Ducène explores the ‘poetics of fragility’ through her work on memory, personal and collective archives, forgotten stories, erased traces and the remnants of everyday life.

 Through her installations and collaborations, she develops a visual language in which delicacy is a critical force.

Her practice highlights what is often relegated to silence: unstable fragments, fragile voices, threatened memories. This is not a fragility of weakness, but a creative fragility that questions our relationship to the world, to history and to ourselves.

The aesthetics of fragility is not a search for weakness, but a way of making the instability that is part of all existence perceptible. It manifests itself through precise artistic choices that give form to what would otherwise remain intangible: memory, the passage of time, vulnerability.
 
Materials play a central role: paper, fragile writing, ink and pencil, or even found objects, carry with them a sense of precariousness: they wear out, become marked, tear.&#38;nbsp;
Their physical instability becomes a metaphor for human fragility and memory, which is always threatened with erasure. Similarly, transparent or translucent materials—glass, tracing paper, veil—embody an uncertain visibility, oscillating between revelation and withdrawal. Forms emerge as fragments, delicate accumulations, or open compositions.
The unfinished and the sketch affirm that fragility is not a defect to be repaired, but a state to be contemplated: a truth that is expressed in the in-between, in assumed incompleteness.

The gestures that structure the artistic practice accentuate this fragility. Erasing, scratching, superimposing, repeating: these are all acts in which disappearance is part of the process. The gesture is restrained, often minimal, and implies the idea of an almost meditative attention. It inscribes in the material a tension between what remains and what fades away.Space is envisaged as an extension of this fragility. Suspended installations, airy structures and intimate formats invite proximity with the viewer.&#38;nbsp;The latter is no longer one of care and attention, as if it were meant to protect what it contemplates.
Finally, temporality is a fundamental theme. Fragile works are ephemeral: they evolve, deteriorate and transform. They exist as traces, imprints or vestiges. The experience they offer unfolds at a slow, silent pace, inviting attentive perception of the passage of time.Thus, the aesthetics of fragility reveal an artistic stance that values what disappears, what cracks, what barely holds together. It transforms vulnerability into poetic strength and invites the viewer to confront not the imposing or the monumental, but the invisible persistence of what still trembles.

Memory is seen as ‘unstable’ and a form of anxiety manifests itself first through an acute awareness of the fragility of memory: images, stories and traces are never fixed, as they appear, blur and fade away. This instability opens up a space where the viewer is confronted with the possibility of loss.
Each trace seems temporary, threatened, as if it could dissolve before our eyes. This fragile aesthetic is no accident, but the heart of visual language: the work itself becomes the site of unease, that of an ever-insufficient imprint.

This unease is fuelled by personal and collective narratives. By combining elements linked to her own history (mourning, absence, loss) with broader cultural references (historical memory, lost heritage), she seeks to create an ambiguous space. The viewer perceives a constant oscillation: between the intimate and the universal, between experience and archive, between testimony and fiction. This tension produces an existential anxiety that runs through the entire work.


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ABOUT CLAIRE DUCENE&#38;nbsp;



Selection of Solo Exhibitions
2025 – «Ressouvenirs», Bénévent-l’Abbaye (FR)



2022 – «Ce blanc du ciel qui fait disparaître les montagnes...», THANKSgalerie, Mons (BE)

2020 – Les Archives Imaginaires de Sainte-Alvère, Dordogne (FR)

2020 – «La Collection Invisible», TRE-A galerie, Mons

2019 – Memorias del Bruc, Biblioteca Verge de Montserrat , El Bruc, Barcelona

2018 – 2019 – Imaginary Museum, The Mini Davis Lisboa Museum, Barcelona

2018 – Croisière au cercle polaire. Été 1929, La Maison Losseau, Mons



2017 – Paysage intérieur, La Maison Culturelle d’Ath/Le Palace, Ath



2016 – Mundos paralelos, Mercado de la Merced, Rota, Spain

2016 – Double Room, ISELP, Brussels&#38;nbsp;
Curating

2025 – Second edition of Fictive Archive Investigations / Two Suns &#38;amp; Two Moons, Malta Society of Arts, La Valletta (MT)

2025 – Dissolve &#38;amp; Dissolve, QUATUOR+1 avec Rémy Hans et Muesli Collective (Louis Darcel, Hannah De Corte, Joao Freitas), Curatrices: Claire Ducène &#38;amp; sabine sil (Sabine Jeanne Sil), POELP, Brussels (BE)

2023 – Memories Gone Wild, Fictive Archive Investigations, ISELP, Brussels (BE)&#38;nbsp;Selection of Collective Exhibitions

2025 – Pulsations. Visages d’une Cité, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons (BE)

2024 – WOMENWAVRE, La Plateforme Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Wavre (BE)





2023 – Endless House Collective X_Out of the Walls, Centre Culturel d’Uccle, Uccle (BE)

2023 – Memories Gone Wild, Fictive Archive Investigations, ISELP, Brussels (BE)


2021 – Biennale ARTour with the GHOSTWRITERS., La Louvière (BE)



2021 – Prix de la Commission des Arts de Wallonie, Abattoir de Bomel, Namur (BE)

2021 – Der Rattenfänger, Galerie Duflon/Racz (BE)

2020 – Prix Artistique de la ville de Tournai 2020 (BE)

2020 – Prix de la Jeune Sculpture 2020 - Grand Format de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles», Campus du Sart Tilman, Liège (BE)

2020 – Photography Prize of the Vila Casas Foundation, Museum Palau Solterra de Torroella de Montgrí, Catalonia (ES)

2019 – Endless House VIII_three ways, Babel visningsrom for kunst,Trondheim, Norway

2019 – Endless House VII_Unreal houses, La Maison Pelgrims, Brussels&#38;nbsp;
2019 – Shifting foundations, Hectolitre, Brussels

2018 – +5, Espacio Pinea, Cadix, Spain

2018 – 27ème Edition du Prix de la Gravure - Edition spéciale / Post-imprimé, Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière

2018 – Tuinfeest 2018, Museum Dhondt-Daenens, Flex Xl Flanders Expo Gent

2018 – ORL+, Rog Galerija Zelenica, Slovenia

2018 – Filtr x EP7 - Observez bien ce que fait le maçon, EP7, Paris (FR)

2018 – Nuances d’Acier. Création et réalité industrielle, Musée Ianchelevici de La Louvière - MILL (BE)&#38;nbsp;
2018 – Trasformatorio, Fourth international lab experimental and in situ specific arts, Giampilieri (IT)







2017 – Off Course Young Contemporary Art Fair, Palais de la Dynastie, Mont des Arts, Brussels (BE)

2016 – Radieuse, cur. by Emmanuel Lambion and Frédéric de Goldschmidt, 7, quai du Commerce, 1000 Brussels (BE)

2016 – Master Salon 2016, Vanderborght building, Brussels (BE)&#38;nbsp;
2016 – KoMASK 2016 Master Salon, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)

2016 – The Bloom Experiment!, installation created with Nicolas Riquette by the Endless Room Collective, The Bloom Hostel!, Brussels (BE)






2016 – Video project At poet Verhaeren’s home, Exhibition Les Gestes Bleus, La Maison Losseau, Mons (BE)

2016 – Endless House II, a collective project by Claire Ducène, Nik O’La and Emilie Terlinden, The Moonens Foundation, Brussels (BE)

2016 – International Collective Exhibition Cachet de la poste faisant foi, Fondation Hippocrène / Villa Mallet-Stevens, Paris (FR)



2015 – International Exhibition, the Art Le Logge - Piazza del Comune, Assisi (IT)&#38;nbsp;
2015 – Exhibition of the artists selected for the Woluwe-Saint-Pierre Prize, Photography,W:Hall, Brussels (BE)

2015 –&#38;nbsp; Paul Hamesse Prize, Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Brussels (BE)

2015 – Hainaut Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Charleroi (BE)




2014 – Images, Installation, collective exhibition “Taille Unique”, Collectif Contrefaçon, Galerie du 48, Rennes (FR)&#38;nbsp;
Illustrations &#38;amp; literary, sound, photographic collections
2023 – House27 by GHOSTWRITERS, photographic and audio collection, 2023, published by Transcultures with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

2022 – Histoires allonymes, short story included in the collection Ghostwriter Library, produced and published in limited edition by Stéphanie Roland, Blue Marble exhibition, ISELP (BE)

2021 – Maisons d’écriture,  illustrations for texts by Christine Van Acker, Eric Piette and Axel Cornil, La Maison Losseau Editions

2018 – Les nombreuses étendues ouvertes de la mer. Journal d’un voyage au cercle polaire arctique.

Texts by Françoise Delmez and illustrations (engravings/photographs) by Claire Ducène, Les Editions Traverse&#38;nbsp;
Festivals




2025 –

TraverSons Bruxelles -&#38;nbsp; Installation &#38;amp; group listening session of ‘Invisible Brussels’
2025 – «Stream of Consciousness», a video &#38;amp; sound mapping in collaboration with Christophe Bailleau, Mons en lumières, Sound and Light Festival, Mons (BE)



Performances


2024 – Lecture-screening of dreamlike archives from House27, Le Vecteur, Charleroi (BE)

2021 – “House27”, Biennale ARTour with the GHOSTWRITERS, Théâtre Le Central, La Louvière (BE)&#38;nbsp;

Awards &#38;amp; Grants 
2024 - Arts Support Scheme, Arts Council Mal ta («Two Moons &#38;amp; Two Suns» by Fictive Archive Investigations

2024/2023/2022/2021 Grant for Creation &#38;amp; Artistic Residency&#38;nbsp; - Wallonie Bruxelles International / WBI

2022 - Grant for Publishing - FWB («House27» by GHOSTWRITERS.)

2022 

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Grant for Culture, la commune d’Uccle (Laureate)
2021- Selected to the Prix de la Commission des Arts de Wallonie 





2020 -

 Grant for artists working in Hainaut (Laureate with the collective GHOSTWRITERS.)
2020 - Selected to the Prix de la ville de Tournai 2020



2020 -

 Selected to the Prix de la Jeune Sculpture 2020 - Grand Format de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles




2020 -

 Selected to the Photography Prize of the Vila Casas Foundation 2020, Catalonia (ES)



2016

- Ifa Gallery Prize (Special Mention)


2015

- Hainaut Prize of Arts  (Laureate)



2015

- Selected to the Godecharle Prize, Painting (shortlisted)


2015

- Selected to the Paul Hamesse Prize 



2015

- Selected to the Art Prize of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre 





2015

- Selected to the Komask Master Salon Painting
Residencies

2024 – Villa Psaigon, Dingli (MT)

2023/2024 – La Métive, Moutier-d’Ahun (FR)

2022 – La Maldita Estampa, Barcelona (ES)

2022 – Fictive Archive Investigations, La Métive, Moutier-d’Ahun (FR)

2022 – Fish Factory, Creative Center of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland (IS)

2020 – Résidence d’artiste Yves de la Tour d’Auvergne de Sainte-Alvère, Dordogne (FR)

2019-2020 – Hectolitre, Brussels (BE)

2019 – Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim (NO)

2019 – ACUR residency, The Arxiu Comarcal de l’Urgell, Barcelona (ES)

2019 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (Coordinator &#38;amp; resident) (ES)

2018 – ORL+, Ljubljana (SLO)

2018 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (Coordinator &#38;amp; resident) (ES)

2018 – Trasformatorio, Fourth international lab experimental and in situ specific arts, Giampilieri (IT)

2017 – Can Serrat, Barcelona (ES)

2016 – Pinea-Linea de Costa, Rota (ES)

2016 – Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo (FI)

2015 – Ferme du Laid Burniat, Godecharle Prize (BE)

2015 – Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi (IT)

2015 – Palazzo Rinaldi, Basilicata (IT)&#38;nbsp;
Teaching

2024, 2025 – «Archive and Fiction» &#38;amp; «Text’s Generator», Literary workshops at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, ARBA ESA

2021 &#38;amp; 2022 – Literary workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tournai

2017, 2019 – Lecturer, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, ARBA ESA

2018 – Literary workshop at the Institut Saint-Luc - Ecole Supérieur des Arts, Brussels

Since 2015 and ongoing - Head of Les Ateliers de la Mémoire

2008-2021 – French &#38;amp; Literature Teacher, IEPSCF, Uccle

Conferences &#38;amp; Masterclass

2025 – Symposium «Fiction(s) in Archive», Malta Society of Arts, La Valletta (MA)

2024 – «L’Archive-fiction», BNA-BBOT, Brussels

2023 – Poétique de l’archive fictive, ISELP, Brussels

2023 – L’archive fiction au coeur des institutions, ISELP, Brussels

Academic Background

2011-2016 – Master’s degree in Visual Arts, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

2010-2016 – Degree in Photography, Académie de dessin et des Arts visuels de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

2006-2008 – Master’s degree in Cultural Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

2003-2007 – Master’s degree in French and Romanic Languages and Literatures, Université Libre de Bruxelles




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THANKSgalerie
Rue des Fripiers, 22, 7000 Mons, Belgium







En cette fin d’année, la THANKSgalerie a le plaisir de vous inviter à son édition 2025-2026 des “Petits formats &#38;amp; Multiples”. 
Une exposition collective où sont proposées des petites oeuvres originales, des éditions numérotées, des tirages, en haute qualité. Une rencontre annuelle d’artistes de la galerie et de deux artistes extérieurs ayant répondu à l’appel.Le vernissage a lieu le 5 décembre 2025 à 18h à la galerie (rue des Fripiers, 22, MONS).
Avec entre-autres des oeuvres de : Axelle Vanoli, Claire Ducène, Julien Brunet, Emmanuel Selva, Romina Remmo, Rodrigue Delattre, LH, Rémy Hans, Samuel Coisne, Nelly Ezzedine, Caroline Ledoux, Mathias Flasse, Guillaume Thunis, Erini Chatsatourian, Silja Hubert…

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