08.03.25, 17:00, Garance Debert, Mysterious CANTATERROR

A character akin to a disenchanted Pierrot takes on the guise of a virtuoso karaoke anti-hero. From his multifunction Android, he lights up the crowd with his thunderbolt, sometimes melancholy, sometimes ironically joyful. His shy, dark dance makes him furtive, stormily in love with his shadow. Losing himself to the sordid refrains, his icy mirrors embracing him all around, these copies impervious to dynamic detours, impenetrable voyeurs of his brilliance. Deceptively subtle, with skillful dimples, he crosses cities, rivers, forests, and people.

Garance Debert is a French performance artist based in Brussels. She is developing a practice at the crossroads of dance, performance, and video, and occasionally tries her hand at publishing. Her work explores the body as an archive and a space for transmission, where gesture becomes a territory for experimentation and reactivation. Through an anachronistic approach to movement, she hijacks the codes of mime, virtuosity, and the grotesque to question how meaning and the common imagination appear and disappear. Her work questions the origins of performativity by turning notions of virtuosity and superficiality on their head. Between expressiveness and emptiness, instability and precision of gesture, she sees the stage as a collective, interactive space where memory is embodied without nostalgia. She trained as a classical and contemporary dancer, earning a DNSPD at the CNDC in Angers before moving on to the ERG in Brussels, where she graduated with great distinction with a Master's degree in Visual Arts. Her work has been presented in a variety of artistic contexts, including institutions such as WIELS, Bozar Rooftop, and CC Strombeek, and experimental spaces such as Ateliers Mommen, the Project(ion) Room, and SB34. Alongside her artistic practice, she has developed a curatorial activity and organized events combining exhibitions and performances in Brussels, notably L'Opéra Discret at the 312 Foundations and Grotte et Ist at the Ateliers du Loto.

Abstract Entities

Thomas Hitchcock's exhibitionAbstract Entities serves as an open platform for temporary interventions by Belgian art students. Throughout the exhibition period, a multitude of interventions will unfold across various media, including performances, music, collective readings, talks, workshops, discussions, body practices, poetry, and screenings.