Emilien Simon ’s exhibition (born in Dinant in 1990) Forests and skies (16.12.2020 > 21.02.2021) evolves around an installation that questions the iconography of landscape through the different phenomena that make it up.

On a television screen, a black sun seems to subtract its colorimetric variations from the sky. These are gradually converted into sound ramifications and tensioned with a set of thermal sculptures that soak the space with kinetic impulses.
This new installation is conceived as a sensory and evolutionary device, where the viewer is immersed. Playing with the boundaries of image and vibration, from color to sound, from warmth to movement. The continuous shift from one condition to another, creates a transition, forming an organic architecture of the phenomena that interact and envelop the spectator.

Laureate of the City of Brussels > Médiatine Prize 2019

With the support of visit.brussels and the Brussels-Capital Region

Exhibition view: Emilien Simon, CENTRALE | box © Philippe de Gobert, december 2020

In the exhibition GOOD LOST CORNERS – places that appeal to me (03.09 > 08.11.2020), visitors can hear a constant voice that refers to places that have been photographed by the artist Max Kesteloot and then used as a source for making new works. It is impossible for the viewers to know which text belongs to which image, but this is precisely what makes it interesting to explore the work further.

“These are my stories, but to the reader, the content will not be that different. These could be anyone’s stories.” – SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances, 2017 – Artist book, Self-published – Max Kesteloot

For more than 10 years, Max Kesteloot (1990, Ghent, lives and works in Oostende) has been capturing his observations on photo. During walks or travels, his main focus is on his surrounding urban context, often including seemingly banal architectural elements. His images are devoid of people and only refer indirectly to a potential presence or action. Kesteloot’s work seems to be about how we absorb our environment, and how it results in fragmented impressions and associative memories.

Untitled photograph, Ault (FR), 2019 © Max Kesteloot

In partnership with

Exhibition View: Max Kesteloot, CENTRALE | box © Philippe de Gobert, september 2020

With The Mental Network, artist Stéphane Roy (Born in Lyon, France, 1988, lives in Brussels), and co-curator of the exhibition by Roger Ballen, is trying to draw up a large social x-ray of our time, with its specific issues and existential questionings. The installation is minimal, participative and evolutionary, and pertains a universal dimension. By answering the question ‘what are you thinking about?’ the viewers-contributors are touched in their very own personal thoughts. The Mental Network website (thementalnetwork.com) allows everyone to take part in this vast collection of thoughts – which are brought together and printed directly in CENTRALE.box. The audience is invited to rummage through these randomly gathered thoughts.

Take part in the installation now by answering the question: What are you thinking about ? on www.thementalnetwork.com

© Stéphane ROY

Laureate Watch this Space, Contemporary art Biennale of the 50° Nord network

Mathieu Harel Vivier is interested by New Caledonia as a territory crossed by flows. Due to its situation in the Coral Sea and in the South Pacific Ocean, its mining operations, cultural crossbreeding and its customs, each portion of the Caledonian landscape is organised around flows that regulate numerous activities and build a singular landscape.
Whether sea movements, the arrival of ore carriers or transportation of the latter, the entire stake of the artist’s researches resides in the displacement of the uses of the Kanak custom towards a reflection on the deployment of images in space. Mixing photographs, sculpture, sound recordings, videos and archives, two facets of this reflection are presented at CENTRALE.box and the Espace 36 in France.

With the support of Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing and ESAD (École Supérieure d’Art et de Design) of Valenciennes

© Mathieu Harel Viver