A dark figure surrounded by red paint and fine white lines
PAINTER. PHOTOGRAPHER. AUTHOR.PAINT / FRAME / FEEL
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A DETAIL IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.

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LOOKAGAIN.

BEVER / KNOKKE · BELGIUMSCROLL TO SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE
THIERRY VAN VRECKEM— LOOK AGAIN

Some thingsneed a secondlook.

A trace of paint. A face in the light. Something ordinary, suddenly unfamiliar. Stay with it.

ENTER THE WORK
01 / THE WORKA selection, arranged by feeling.

Paint first.Words follow.

CHAPTER 01 / THE FIGUREPAINTING

The body becomes a gesture. Colour carries what the outline cannot.

Look closer
Explore the painting archive
02 / THE EYEFROM THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE

RIGHT TIME.RIGHT PLACE.RIGHT VIEW.

The world does not stop. A photograph asks you to.

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03 / IMAGE / WORDPOLAROID POETRY / 2014

POLAROID
POETRY.

Sometimes the image comes before the words.

Polaroid Poetry turns an everyday way of looking into a book. Published in 2014, with a foreword by Johan Swinnen.

About the book
PICK A FRAME. STAY A MOMENT.

A photographic arrangement inspired by the book. Images from Thierry’s wider archive.

04 / THE PERSONBEVER, BELGIUM
Thierry Van VreckemTHIERRY / ALWAYS IN THE MAKING

I AM NOTONE THING.

Painting, photography, drawing, words. Thierry moves between them with the same curiosity. The medium changes. The search continues.

Read the conversation
PAINTING
PAINT / FEEL
PHOTOGRAPHER.PAINTER.AUTHOR.OBSERVER.
IN HIS OWN WORDS
“Woorden en verf,
twee talen van hetzelfde gevoel.”
— Thierry Van Vreckem ↗

AND TOMORROW,MAYBE SOMETHING ELSE.

THIERRY VAN VRECKEM
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