Parenthèse
2026
duo show with François Genicot in collaboration with Agnesoffshore Gallery
Location: Quai du commerce 26, 1000 Bruxelles
We present Parenthèse, a duo exhibition by Flor De Meulenaere and François Genicot. Conceived as a pause within the gallery’s ongoing projects and the artists’ respective practices, the exhibition functions as a moment of suspension and reflection.
The show occupies a dilapidated space within the Kassé building, treated as a booth within a broader moment of emergence. It offers a subtle nod to Agnes, which hosted its first exhibition and temporarily established its gallery space on the top floor of Kassé, marking an opportunity to turn a page together with the collective.
For the artists, Parenthèse involves relocating their works into a new context and, through a shared sense of playfulness, reformulating their meanings. The exhibition seeks moments of symbiosis not only to articulate relationships between the works and their individual qualities, but also to create a continuous thread of interaction between them.
flor de meulenaere
Objects move through different states of visibility: stored away on the shelving of the studio, installed as intended in an exhibition space, or caught somewhere in between. Focus settles on these in-between moments – the arrival and the unpacking, the initial gesture of the first placement, and the repositioning not too long after, as the works wander through the exhibition space. Here, play unfolds. Forms are handled, tested, and momentarily misplaced, remaining a suggestion. The works have been placed in ‘Parenthése’; they appear to be there as an addition to something else, to exist as an invitation or as a suggestion of the possible.
François Genicot
fading flowers, metal petals falling to the floor. the final bloom of a room
not fit for lungs,
rotten to some, full of life to others.
layers peeling of, revealing the history of this place. and here
we grow, pushing ourselves through the cracks, opening gateways to the next phase.
