Antwerp Art 2026
May 14 - June 14
In an imploding world where nothing seems secured to the floor, we ask ourselves, is shit hitting the fan? Has there been any transcendence or enlightenment in the promised land?
The moral high ground has turned on us. What are we supposed to do?
The chase for the sublime is never-ending and elusive. An inescapable compulsion towards beauty, ritual and play. A wild goose chase, striving to emulate what is, in itself, effortless. Circling around the inexplicable on a tiny little circus bike in a mad attempt to storm the heavens, ultimately finding the value in the pursuit: the ambition thereof.
The process of creating something true, despite the rules of truth, depends on spontaneous, irrational and erotic forces. It relies on belief and suspension of disbelief, operating in the space where the distinction between signal and noise collapses.
So how do you head back into the wilderness? It can be discussed endlessly but must not hide within the comfort of its purpose. It has to trust and surrender itself. The initial shock cannot be consensual. The first time is not always pleasurable. So how do we head back into the wilderness?
Flowers will grow. Spring will come. Every year it will surprise us again. But these times too will bear fruit. The show focuses on beauty not as virtuous, but as a powerful, morally ambiguous force, an active agent, dangerous and aware in her body.
She is compulsive, excessive, and tragically devoted to our nature. Les Fleurs du Mal offers these works as materials and gestures, comfortable with their contradictions. Wherever it may lead.
You’re welcome to join us, on foot in the dark or with a flashlight, in search of both material and spiritual channels.
Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum) - Which has to be shown