Transhistorytwinpaintology

 

 

June 14 - July 19, 2026

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Opening - Saturday, June 13th - From 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

 

 

Ostend, the city James Joyce described in a letter as

“by far the best place.”

 

In the summer of 1926, James Joyce stayed in Ostend with Nora and his children. He strolled along the seawall, wrote letters, and gazed at the North Sea. He had published Ulysses four years earlier — this modern epic in which he had coined words that the English language did not yet possess.

 

A century after this stay, Xavier Noiret-Thomé returns to these words. He chooses eighteen of them — just as Ulysses has eighteen chapters. He responds to them with eighteen paintings.

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Transhistorytwinpaintology That of Joyce, who sculpted language as one kneads matter, and that of the painter, who restores to that matter its visible form. Between the two: a letter that Noiret-Thomé sends to Joyce from other shores, like throwing a bottle into the sea.is the story of this twofold invention — That of Joyce, who sculpted language as one kneads matter, and that of the painter, who restores to that matter its visible form. Between the two: a letter that Noiret-Thomé sends to Joyce from other shores, like throwing a bottle into the sea.

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[bu’ro] - An exhibition curated by Philippe Braem

Torhoutsesteenweg 49, Ostend

Open: Saturday / Sunday, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment

+32 475 37 22 66

phbraem@gmail.com

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www.ostendiana.be