Ben Greber & Pascal Piron in Conversation with Curator Livia Klein, Luxembourg Art Week

Ben, your window also shows something that is disappearing, in a very different way. What are you presenting?
The installation High Fidelity consists of four plastic casts of hi-fi components: a record player, an amplifier and two speakers. They are placed on a display unit and arranged like a classic presentation in a hi-fi store window. Despite their shiny, hyper-aesthetic surfaces, the casts are not intact. They have cracks and resemble crumbling concrete. 

Marta Djourina & Andréa Vamos in Conversation with Curator Livia Klein, Luxembourg Art Week

You work in complete darkness. How do you know what you are making? Working in complete darkness, I rely on bodily memory to guide my movements, developing choreographies of light that become colour drawings on photographic paper. I call it blind painting: the marks remain invisible until chemical development reveals the latent image. I’m fascinated by this delay, by the gap between the physical gesture and the moment its trace becomes visible. MD

Exhibition review by Club Paradis

Created to mark ArtOnPaper’s 10th edition, the new SOLO Prize recognises an artist presented within the fair’s Solo section whose practice places paper at its core. For its inaugural edition, the jury has selected João Freitas, presented by LAGE EGAL Curatorial Projects (Berlin / Brussels). The prize will lead to a solo exhibition at the Musée d’Ixelles in 2028 and a portfolio in The Drawer magazine in October 2027.

Exhibition review by Gwennaëlle Gribaumont, La Libre

Parmi les usages les plus étonnants du médium ? Le travail de João Freitas, présenté par LAGE EGAL Curatorial Projects. L'artiste portugais travaille notamment à partir de Tetra Pak qu'il désosse méthodiquement jusqu'à créer, par soustraction, une matière indéfinissable. Les couleurs et les textures affleurent timidement, comme les indices d'une histoire enfouie.