Alexis Gicart — A57 — Not many people know

A57 is an art shop based in Brussels, born out of friendship and a simple desire: to create, display, and share. The shop offers editions of posters, postcards, art books and music, and features an exhibition space where photography, drawing, performances and other art forms change every month.
Upcoming events
Théophane Raballand
Maël G. Lagadec
Past events Antigoni Effraimidou & The Nono
Alexis Gicart
Manya
Stanislas Huaux
Atelier d’hiver
Fumi Ueoka
The Opening

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Rue du Fort, 57
1060 Brussels, Belgium
email : info@a57.be

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11.02 > 22.02.2026 - Exhibition

Alexis Gicart
SUSPENDED / EN SUSPENS

Opening : 11.02.26 from 17:00 > 21:00
Permanence Alexis Gicart
14.02 from 10:00 > 13:00
15.02 from 16:00 > 18:00
Closing : 22.02.26 from 14:00 > 16:30

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Alexis Gicart
SUSPENDED / EN SUSPENS

I start where nothing seems to hold the gaze: places conceived for passing through, not for staying. Spaces without an apparent story, designed to connect rather than to welcome—places between two gestures, between two rooms, between two moments. I cross these spaces, then I pause. I look for what insists, what resists perception. This resistance is precious: it compels us to look differently, to prolong attention until reality shifts, ever so slightly. Not to create a fiction, but to recalibrate the conditions of appearance. By lingering a little longer, something happens: what seemed neutral becomes sensitive. A discreet presence, a faint tension, then silence. It is within this zone of doubt—where the image does not impose itself, but allows itself to be approached—that my work takes shape.

Suspended marks a stage in my process—a way of seeking a certain rightness: looking without emphasizing, framing without explaining, letting the image hold in an uncertain zone.
Questions emerge when you linger over a place that says almost nothing. That is where I photograph. I return to the everyday—because it is often in these spaces, in what seems unremarkable, that intimacy can be approached.

Only later did I find a word for this: liminal—what lingers on a threshold, neither inside nor outside, neither before nor after. But I did not begin with the concept; I began with the sensation. With that suspended moment when you are unsure whether you are leaving, arriving, or waiting. These images do not offer answers. They propose an experience: to remain for a moment at the edge, where nothing seems to happen—and yet to sense that something is about to begin.

After Hinterland / Inner Exile, which explored margins and transitional zones—between proximity and distance, presence and absence, natural and artificial—this work shifts the focus toward something closer, more grounded.
No longer the hinterland as a place, but the in-between as a condition. As if inner exile now resided within reach, in everyday spaces. These ordinary places become thresholds: subtle tipping points where reality, slightly displaced, reveals something intimate.