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IDIOS


31.01.2026 - 12.03.2026


Opening  Saturday 31.01. from 5 to 9 pm 


Manon Bara - Aurélie Gravas - Joke Hansen - Xavier Noiret- Thomé

 


Idios is a conceptual exhibition whose title draws on the Greek term meaning “private” or “personal.” Conceived as a shared yet singular territory, the gallery becomes a space in which each artist’s individual practice can unfold, resonate, and interact with others. Working across disciplines—from painting to installation—the artists present multidisciplinary works that explore distinct forms of engagement, materiality, and perception, while remaining attentive to what resists standardization and easy categorization.
Manon Bara’s practice approaches painting as an embodied and engaged process rather than the production of fixed images. Her work absorbs popular, religious, and media imagery through a visceral, excessive use of paint that spills beyond hierarchy and control. Wet, voracious, and saturated, her paintings form dense ensembles where narration, gesture, and material coexist, allowing joy and bitterness, devotion and violence, to remain inseparable.

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Aurélie Gravas develops a painting of controlled abundance, where saturated surfaces and all-over compositions maintain a delicate balance between density and openness. Through volumes, lines, and color contrasts, her work generates a restrained yet vibrant energy. Figures—often faces—emerge without imposing themselves, sustaining a space of suspended attention in which emotion circulates and the gaze is invited to move, return, and linger. For Joke Hansen, painting is not self-evident but a condition to be continually tested and renegotiated. Moving between painting, collage, and sculpture, she challenges traditional formats through cutouts, free-form canvases, and hybrid structures. Her practice privileges experimentation, irony, and circulation over resolution, keeping the fundamental questions of painting open while inviting viewers to reconsider their position within an ever-evolving visual system.Xavier Noiret-Thomé’s work engages deeply with art history, understood as a living ground of forms and unresolved problems. Rather than quoting or surpassing inherited images, he reactivates and transforms them through a complex network of signs, colors, and motifs. Humor, reflexivity, and rigor coexist in a practice that treats painting as an ongoing process of alliance, endurance, and reinvention, resisting any exhaustion of meaning.

 

With references to the text, in french, of B. Dusart "ἴδιος est une situation."

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Belgian Gallery

Florencestraat, 39

1000 Brussels

info@belgiangallery.com

https://www.belgiangallery.com

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