In Magazine (09 September 2025), writer Indra Devriendt reflects on the current exhibitions at Sofie Van de Velde Gallery, describing them as a dialogue between different media, perspectives and friendships.
Devriendt highlights how Felix De Clercq explores memory through gouaches on paper, shifting away from oil on canvas to a more intimate and fragmentary painterly language. Max Pinckers, meanwhile, presents 2020–MMXX, a series of analogue photographs taken in Rome during the pandemic, questioning the notion of the photographic moment by capturing simultaneity.
The exhibition also features EUR42 (2022), a video work by Gauthier Van Oushoorn & Ingel Vaikla, which examines ideology and temporality through nocturnal motorcycle rides in Mussolini’s EUR district.
As Devriendt writes, the presentation reveals not only autonomous practices, but also an underlying closeness between the artists — a shared exploration of image-making, time, memory, and gaze. The gallery also plays with perspective: De Clercq paints Pinckers in his own interpretive style, while Pinckers photographs De Clercq’s studio from multiple viewpoints — each act revealing how looking itself creates meaning.
Read the full article: https://galleryviewer.com/en/article/3147/imagery-as-encounter-at-sofie-van-de-velde-gallery
