On the occasion of their coinciding exhibitions at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Max Pinckers and Felix De Clercq collaborated for a new work. Departing from conversations about each other’s visual language and practice, they made photographs together of a painting in process, which was in turn based on a photograph. The result is a series of five black-and-white prints in which wet paint, canvas, and camera join in a waltz. Photography eyes painting’s abstraction with envy but stumbles over its own shutter release cable as painting leans toward photography’s claim to truth with quiet longing.

Five monochrome carbon pigment prints and oil paint on various archival paper types, mounted on dibond in aluminium frames with no glazing, 32,5 x 26,5 cm each.