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Art|st talk

With the support of the district Borgerhout


Le zamakan 7 sur 7 / زمكان. 


During Borger at Friday 22.03.2024 at 20:30

Join us at Lichtekooi Artspace for an artist talk by Amine Lahrach & Benjamin Verhoeven, in connection with their exhibition Deux mains fait demain.

Accompanied by audiovisual references (Moroccan film footage and personal imagery), the artists will shed light on their collaboration, creating a space where individual perspectives meld into a communal vision. About the question of ‘L’image commune’ and the making of a communal artwork.

They will talk about the act of sharing the camera with each other, blow-ups, traveling images, and spacetime dimensions.

During the talk, you can enjoy Moroccan pastries and mint tea.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Current Exh|bition


With the support of the Flemish government.
In collaboration with Le 18.
  


Benjamin Verhoeven & Amine Lahrach
Deux mains fait demain

02.03.2024 - 20.04.2024



Lichtekooi is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition by Benjamin Verhoeven and Amine Lahrach.

The two artists met in 2020 during a residency at LE 18, the multidisciplinary cultural space in Marrakesh. Connecting over daily explorations through the medina, they discovered a shared gaze and common interests. Their collaboration evolved organically, merging Verhoeven’s exploration of image legitimacy in foreign culture with Lahrach’s perspective on cultural identity. The walls of LE 18 became their canvas, where tiles served as a drawing board for conceptualizing ideas and connections. This transformed into a research project towards the “image commune” transcending geographical and cultural boundaries. The tiles, like pixels, reveal a richer image when connected and serve as a tool to question the classical frame of image production.

At Lichtekooi, Verhoeven and Lahrach present an in-situ installation containing cyanotype tiles. Resembling the sending of a digital image, part of the tiles will already be in place, while the rest will be shipped from Morocco to Belgium during the course of the exhibition, completing the image as each tile arrives.

Amine Lahrach (°1995, Casablanca, Morocco) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Marrakesh. He studied film at the Institute of Cinematography in Ouarzazate. His work is built around performative actions that manifest in various forms, including visual art, food practices, slam poetry, and nonclassical radio practice. His artistic approach is rooted in everyday idioms and driven by the social friction between himself and society. Through his work, he seeks to reinterpret social reflection and challenge collective perceptions of the world around us. Lahrach’s artistic journey began in the underground scene of Casablanca. He later joined Qanat, a platform for contemporary art, and in 2019, he became part of the LE 18 collective in Marrakesh. He is the initiator of Safina, an artistic project that explores interdisciplinary collaborations questioning the city of Safi. During Documenta fifteen, he published “Tighaline under water revelation.”

Benjamin Verhoeven (°1990, Malle, Belgium) is a visual artist who lives and works in Brussels. He studied at the KASK - School of Arts in Ghent and is a laureate at the HISK. His work revolves around the image as a medium and its (re)production, with audiovisual apparatuses as his main working tool. In his ongoing project “Scanning Cinema” he deals with the action of scanning moving images and putting them back into animated film. Verhoeven participated in various national and international exhibitions; among them at KANAL/Centre Pompidou (BE), Mu:ZEE (BE), Cinematek (BE), University Art Gallery Irvine, California (US) and the 6th Moscow Biennale, special program (RU).















Check out the Webshop for Lichtekooi supporters 2024!

The Lichtekooi webshop is a visualisation of the ideal budget of Lichtekooi Artspace. You will find an overview of all costs associated with running an exhibition space, both overhead costs and project-related costs, ranging from toilet paper to artist fees.

Using this webshop you can support Lichtekooi by contributing to a specific cost of our operation. As proof of purchase, Lichtekooi supporters receive an invoice designed by an artist. This year Tom Volkaert designed an invoice. 


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