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10.04 > 03.05.2026 - Exhibition Photography

Maël G. Lagadec
1986, ERREURS SUPERPOSÉES

Opening : 10.04 - 17h > 00h

Permanence Parcours d'Artistes 2026
11, 12, 18 & 19 april
11h > 18h

Closing : 03.05.26 - 15h > 18h

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Maël G. Lagadec
1986, ERREURS SUPERPOSÉES

July 1986, I'm two years old.
On the banks of the Dordogne in France, Thierry and Marie-Martine are spending their last summer together. For reasons that will remain a mystery, their love affair is over
and Marie-Martine wants sole custody of their son. In order to forget, Thierry flies away for a new life in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

June 2017, Marie-Martine is swept away by the waters of the Dordogne.
After many years without any contact with my father, I feel it is important to get back in touch. If only to tell him this sad news. One month later, I receive a USB key containing several series of scanned photographs. One of the folders is entitled : 1986, erreurs superposées.

Among the batch of old photos sent to him, Maël discovers a folder labelled ‘1986, Superimposed Errors’. The images come from a roll of film that was accidentally
double-exposed: first in the summer of 1986 in the Dordogne, then again in
Riyadh during the winter of 1987. "1986. Superimposed Errors" is an extremely disturbing and sensitive photographic series. The images take on a whole new dimension and recount the drama that unfolded in 1986 for Maël Lagadec, still a very young child, and for his parents, who were still a couple at the time. The ‘photographic accident’ resonates, can be deciphered, and reveals the cracks in these three beings.

It may seem like a sad and ordinary story of separation, except that in this
particular case, ‘magic’ has intervened, and the child's trauma, inevitable in such
tragedies, finds some answers, even solace. With modesty, Maël Lagadec expresses it simply: "During the meditative hours spent cleaning the dust accumulated on the new scans, I finally find meaning in this part of myself in perpetual exile." As Clément Chéroux points out in his book Fautographie : Petite histoire de l'erreur photographique (Yellow Now, 2003), "it is in its shadows: its failures, accidents and slips of the tongue, that photography reveals itself most and can be analysed best."

Maël G. Lagadec is a French artist based in Brussels. Through photography, film, and sound, he explores the boundary between the emotional body and the imaginal world by exalting sensitive, even mystical perception. His works have won awards in the United States, Italy, Romania, India, Belgium, and France.