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.
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10.04 > 03.05.2026 - Exhibition Photography

Maël G. Lagadec
1986, ERREURS SUPERPOSÉES





Opening & Late Night Event
April 10
5 PM – 12 AM

Open Days - Parcours d’Artistes 2026
April 11, 12, 18 and 19
11 AM – 6 PM

Gallery Night
April 15
6 PM – 10 PM

Closing Event
May 3
3 PM – 6 PM

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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. 

01.05.2026 - Poetry book lecture with music

Léa Cerveau
Mémoire de nos pieds nus
suivi de Encyclies





May 1st 2025 - 19h

Léa Cerveau - Poetry
Maël G. Lagadec - Music

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www.lessouffleursdevers.fr

Léa Cerveau
MÉMOIRES DE NOS PIEDS NUS suivi de ENCYCLIES


FR //
J'écris comme je marche. Pieds nus...
Pieds nus j'avance plus lentement, je sens la douleur des graviers et la douceur des herbes folles. Je sais la pluie de la nuit sur les pavés et la chaleur du soir dans les bois. Pieds nus, je me souviens du chemin parcouru.
Pieds nus, rien n'échappe aux sens. Rien n'évite les impacts, rien ne protège du monde...
Peut-être qu'il ne s'agit pas tant de s'en protéger que de le sentir exister.
Deux parties qui ne font qu'un livre, une traversée poétique et vivante en quête d'une ultime unité avec le monde intérieur et extérieur.

Léa Cerveau est poétesse-yogi et éditrice, elle s'active aujourd'hui à semer la poésie vivante dans tous les interstices de l'existence : en atelier, sur scène ainsi qu'à l'écrit. C'est ainsi qu'elle invite au poème, comme on ouvre sa porte en invitant à faire comme chez soi.  
Pour elle, la poésie est une façon d'écouter battre le coeur des choses, un lieu réel où les possibles poussent pendant que le monde continue de tourner, une zone autonome et libre à aimer et à défendre.
Ses recueils Les Funesteries (2024), Le chant des ruines (2025), Je n'ai plus peur du vide (2026) sont parus aux Editions Les souffleurs de vers, qu'elle a fondé et qu'elle dirige aujourd'hui avec le poète Michaël Lambert.
D'autres de ses textes sont publiés en revues, blogs et recueils collectifs.

Elle mène en parallèle de l'écriture, un travail de recherche sur le thème : Bouddhisme, anarchisme et poésie : paix intérieure et ré-éveil collectif

27.03 > 05.04.2026 - Exhibition

Théophane Raballand
IMAGES



Opening : 27.03.26 from 17:00 > 21:00

Permanence Théophane Raballand
   28.03 from 14:00 > 18:00
   29.03 from 14:00 > 18:00
   04.04 from 14:00 > 18:00

Closing : 05.04.26 from 14:00 > 16:30

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Théophane Raballand
IMAGES

Celebrating life. It is the most beautiful essence, that concentrated substance with captures the fundamental composition of all things. To be a conduit in praise of the living. The living is a kingdom, the realm of all that lives. A kingdom whose sovereign is the « creative principle ». It is the original singularity, the force at the origin of existence and movement in all things. It may be perceived as a vibration, an energy, a universal law, or a consciousness that generates and orders the world.


 

06.03 > 08.03.2026 - Exhibition + Album release

Antigoni Effraimidou & The Nono
CASCADE



Opening & Concert : 06.03.26 from 18:00 > 21:00
(Concert The Nono 19:00)

Permanence Antigoni Effraimidou
   07.03.26 from 15:00 > 18:30
 
Closing : 08.03.26 from 15:00 > 18:30

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Antigoni Effraimidou

Originally from Greece, Antigoni Effraimidou was drawn to painting from an early age. Rather than following a conventional academic path, she cultivated her artistic voice independently, allowing intuition, observation, and experience to shape her practice. Now based in Brussels, she returns to painting with renewed focus and conviction, embracing it both as a personal and expressive necessity. Her art oscillates between figurative and surrealist expression, working across media including oil, graphite, charcoal, ink and pastel. 

Antigoni’s work delves into the power and vulnerability of the human body, using it as a vessel to externalize emotion and reveal the intricate dynamics of romantic relationships. People often exist in close proximity yet remain unreachable, reflecting a social condition shaped by systemic pressure, digital mediation, and the normalization of solitude.

In this work, the female body becomes a site of memory and resistance. Marked by scars, it bears witness to intimate and collective histories; traces of love, rupture, and emotional loss. By shifting attention away from the face, Antigoni resists the visual reduction of women, giving space for the body to speak through experience rather than appearance. Here, the body remembers before the mind does, carrying stories that persist even when identity is erased or silenced. 

Through this exhibition, she invites viewers to sense the intensity and fragility of human emotion, to recognize themselves in the gestures, and to experience the unspoken language of bodies in relation to one another.

The Nono

With this first self-composed and self-produced album, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Renaud Arents Reina, aka “The Nono,” presents a biopic shaped by twenty years of involvement in music and the socio-cultural sector in Belgium - his homeland, in Spain -the land of his roots or even in Palestine. It is an ambitious undertaking: both musically and in its written content, the album distills the essence of more than one hundred songs composed over the past two decades. Blending rock, folk, country, indie and blues influences, the record unfolds as a cascade of sounds and words that convey emotion, melancholy and reflection on our singular nature—caught between social norms, the challenges of our era and the deep-seated need for self-determination we all share.

 


Interview A57 - Antigoni Effraimidou © Maël Lagadec

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.

 

06.02.2026 - Dance performance and poems

Manya
Corpoèmes + Performance






Date : 06.02.2026
Opening and Corpoèmes : 17:00 > 18:30
Performance : 19:00 ( 20min )

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Corpoèmes + Performance

Corpoèmes

Imbrication de la danse et du texte poétique, une action artistique brève et intense d’un·e artiste pour un·e spectateur·trice

Dance is not always something we do, but also something that happens to us. A Corpoem is an experience to be lived. Wherever we dare to go, curiosity leads us in the experience of poetry.

Through moments experienced between two persons, the artist leads a person to explore gestural qualities with invitation of movement. It is a matter of forgetting ourselves to become deeply aware of the happening gesture.

Performance
LUNE NOIRE - PREMICES

This is the story of an encounter, deep in doubt and waitings, where unspeakable words align with desires.
No matter what it takes, we must go and meet the giant and the gaping holes, survive the rain, dare to rush in, meet each other.
Manya, back from a volcanic residency for a project in the making-Lune Noire-which will be born on March 19 in Marseille offers us here a first dance experience, accompanied by the poet Sadie Von Paris.
A first return from the field, a first encounter on stage between two artists.

Interview A57 - Manya © Maël Lagadec

23.01 > 01.02.26 - Exhibition

Stanislas Huaux
A ROAD TO TRANQUILITY



Opening : 23.01.26 from 17:00 > 21:00
Permanence Stanislas Huaux 27 + 29.01.2026 from 16:00 > 18:00
Closing : 01.02.26 from 14:00 > 16:30

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Stanislas Huaux
A road to tranquility


As a child, I spent every summer vacation by a pond, always the same one. surrounded by a forest. You couldn't see it from the road uphill, so tall and dense were the trees. Hours spent fishing, catching frogs, building huts, ransack the nettles with  sticks, catch flies and butterflies, and much more.... On rainy days, near the water, I would seek shelter under the dense foliage of trees. Sitting in a crouched position, with my chin resting on my knees and my bum perched on my heels to avoid getting wet. Arms around my legs, trapping the warmth of my belly, I found myself captivated by the enchanting aroma of silt and the earthy scent of decaying wood. The dull sound of raindrops on the foliage intoxicated me; I truly felt sheltered, far from home. Since then, I have remained in love with these bodies of water; they are always full of life and surprises.
Recently, during a walk with friends, I was surprised by one of these basins in the region of Rotselaar. Not quite like the one I knew, sadder, less wild, ordinary. But I saw in it a kind of tranquility. Surrounding the water was a reconstituted nature.
Fishermen, surfers, a few hidden caravans, a deer farm, and so on...It was not so far from home. So it didn't take me long to find my way there with my old and cumbersome photographic equipment: an 8x10 technical camera. I needed to rediscover some slowness amidst a stressful and completely digitalized professional life. Through my visits and encounters over time, I learned that the pond was the result of building a highway. The need for sand for the construction of Highway A2 connecting Leuven to Lummen had left a scar in this wooded region. A rift that rapidly filled with water. Pleistocene bones began to appear trapped in dredger filters. Some amateur archaeologists were conducting excavations at night; they brought back some beautiful pieces. Ultimately, regardless of its historical aspect, it appeared to me that a highway project—symbolizing modernity, speed, and incessant noise—could generate its complete opposite: antiquity, calmness, and silence.



Interview A57 - Stanislas Huaux © Maël Lagadec

07.12.25 - Exhibition

Atelier d’hiver



Ouverture d’hiver 2025 !

21.11 > 28.11.25 - Exhibition

Fumi Ueoka
‘Finally it becomes flat’

    "There is a quiet rhythm within complexity. My paintings are born from the process in which things that never existed in the same moment slowly overlap upon a single surface. Drifting between the figurative and the abstract, I paint as an act of trying to understand this world, guided by sensations that run like electricity and thoughts tossed about by society. And in the end, the work quietly rises as one result of that act, revealing the shape of a soul." —  Fumi Ueoka


Photos © Stanislas Huaux

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