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Kirsty Bell on Chaimowicz’s sitting room

Kirsty Bell explores The Hayes Court Sitting Room (1979-2023), the new installation created by Marc Camille Chaimowicz for his exhibition at WIELS. Looking at questions of domesticity, fictional interiors and the shift of the home from workplace to artwork, she draws upon her previous texts on Chaimowicz including the chapter dedicated to him in her 2013 book, The Artist’s House.

In English

Podcas'KETS

The WIELS KETS had many questions for artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz himself after their visit to the Nuit américaine exhibition. Discover Chaimowicz's intimate world as you listen to their interview. Come to WIELS and find the artworks they discuss!

Listen to the podcasts here or at the exhibition, available in French and English.

Conversation between Chaimowicz and Gray

The artist talks with the curator of the exhibition, Zoë Gray, about Dear Zoë (Emma Bovary collages) (2020-2023), a suite of 40 collages around the main character of Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.

In English
Subtitles available in English

Marie Canet on 'Celebration ? Realife' (FR)

Author of the recent monograph dedicated to Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display (2022), Marie Canet traces the developments in the artist’s practice since the 1970s. In this lecture, she focuses on his 1972 installation Celebration? Realife, the seminal work presented in Chaimowicz’s exhibition at WIELS.

In French