Art Brussels: Brussels, Belgium

SOLO SHOW
Geraldine Tobe

 

In her series Sans Visage, Géraldine Tobe continues a visceral work of memory, navigating between suppressed history, transgenerational pain, and poetic resistance. Playing with the layered resonances of the title — cent visages (a hundred faces), sang visages (blood faces), sans visage (faceless) — she raises a stark question: who has the right to an image? To memory? To recognition?

 

This series makes visible the faces that history has erased: those of African laborers deported to Europe, anonymous and numbered, often absent from official narratives. Neither heroes nor recognized slaves, these ghostly figures drift in the margins of collective memory. Through the act of painting, Tobe restores their presence. Each canvas becomes an act of restitution — an archaeology of forgetting.

 

Sans Visage is not just a look back at the past. It is also a mirror held up to our own contemporary acts of forgetting. Through powerful, at times monumental compositions, the series unsettles, questions, and shakes us from the comfort of passive looking. It reminds us that as long as some remain nameless, unrecognized, faceless — history remains incomplete.

 

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Art Brussels 

Brussels Expo 
Hall 5 

Place de Belgique 1
1020 Brussels 

 

DATES AND TIMES

 

PREVIEW
11 AM – 4 PM | Thursday, 24 April 

 

VERNISSAGE

4 PM – 9 PM | Thursday, 24 April 

 

PUBLIC OPENING HOURS

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