VIVE LA VUE!
Anne Vanoutryve, Bart Slangen, Bart Stolle, Christophe Malfliet, dominiq V.D.wall., Eric vande Pitte, Joanna Kraszewska, Mieke Teirlinck, Patrick Ceyssens, Yves Malfliet
Seeing becomes experiencing.
Ten artists open up new vistas — from tranquil horizons to inner landscapes.
An exhibition about perspective, desire and the power of seeing.
Discover. Marvel. See anew.
Seeing is never neutral. In Vive la vue, the landscape is not presented merely as a subject, but as a dynamic place where perception, memory and imagination intersect. The exhibition brings together ten artists who each explore in their own way how vision arises: vision of the world, vision from a particular position, and vision as an inner landscape. What we see always turns out to be an encounter between the outside world and our own gaze.
Anne Vanoutryve opens this field with subtle, tranquil compositions in which light and nuance play the leading role. Her work invites us to look at it for a long time — as if the image only slowly reveals its horizon.
Bart Slangen explores the tension between abstraction and recognition. His work suggests fragments of landscapes, or perhaps rather their echo: a floating line, a pivot point that sets the view in motion.
For Bart Stolle, the landscape becomes a process. By combining animation, sound and refined graphic structures, he explores how the eye navigates through digital and analogue realities. His visual language shows the view as a construction.
Christophe Malfliet evokes silent spaces between departure and arrival. His works function as mental windows—moments in which time seems to tilt and vision becomes a premonition.
dominiq V.D.wall. plays directly with the frame. His installations and visual interventions confront the viewer with the question of what lies inside and what lies outside, and how the window — real or imaginary — directs our gaze.
Eric vande Pitte moves in a more intimate sphere. Interiors, images from memory and dreamlike fragments form an inner landscape that looks outwards in silence.
Joanna Kraszewska brings tranquillity and poetry. Her images open up contemplative spaces in which air, light and emptiness transform the view into an emotional space.
Mieke Teirlinck, on the other hand, seeks abstracted landscapes in which colour and form create an atmospheric tension: the view as a state of mind.
Patrick Ceyssens confronts the viewer with raw, expressive visual energy. His work exudes the physical experience of looking: direct, intense and unadorned.
Finally, Yves Malfliet brings a world of mythical hints and wondrous objects. His installations and sculptures create landscapes that are as much fairy tale as reality, a view that is felt rather than defined.
Together, these artists form a polyphonic panorama. Vive la vue shows that looking is more than seeing: it is orienting oneself, longing, remembering, travelling, getting lost, coming home. The view becomes an invitation — not to possess the landscape, but to disappear into it again and again.