Featured Artist: Clair Bravo
Clair Bravo (1999, France) is a Brussels-based photographer who graduated from the ERG and the KASK&Conservatorium. Focusing on queer lives, Clair’s work approaches photography as a participatory practice, evolving within spaces of kinship and intimacy.
D’amour & d’eau fraîche is a photographic series born out of several months of wandering through seven rural queer communities in France, mainly located in the ‘diagonale du vide’ – that strip of French territory where, from north to south, the population density is lower.
Through scenes of everyday life, the project explores the notions of belonging, visibility, intimacy and community life in areas often associated with conservative or heteronormative stereotypes.
At a time when discourse and institutions are becoming increasingly fascist in nature, these queer communities represent spaces of resistance, solidarity and collective creativity.
In this suspended moment, punctuated by the summer heat, communal life and chosen families, new horizons are taking shape.
This series explores how photography can contribute to the construction of shared imaginaries, the transmission of minority experiences and the invention of desirable futures.
The very form of the project extends this reflection. The texts accompanying the images were written by the people photographed, multiplying the perspectives and sharing the authority of the narrative. Presented on silk, the photographs become objects whose lightness and mobility encourage a fluid circulation, outside established frameworks.
Dates: September 10, 2026 – November 15, 2026
Opening hours: Everyday 2pm – 10pm
Address: 20, rue du Mouton Blanc, 4000 Liège
Opening night: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 6pm
Featured Artist: Davit Ibragimovi
“Eleven years ago, I arrived in Belgium with my mother. I was eleven at the time.
I had lived my whole life in Georgia, and arriving here was a real upheaval: a new language, a new culture, a new life.
We lived in a refugee centre for eight months. Paradoxically, that is where some of my happiest memories lie.
People from all walks of life lived together there. We came from different countries, driven by various reasons, but a strong bond united us: a form of spontaneous and sincere solidarity. For me, it was a discovery of diversity, in all its human and cultural richness — a reality I hadn’t experienced in Georgia, where communities are more compartmentalised.
Today, I am living my life to the full in Belgium, but that initial culture shock left a deep impression on me. It also instilled in me a particular sensitivity towards those often referred to as ‘minorities’. Ever since I first took up photography, I have always felt a deep-seated need: to shine a light on the people, stories and cultures that we do not see often enough. This photographic project stems from that personal experience. It aims to celebrate the beauty of cultures through their traditional clothing, worn not in their countries of origin, but here, in their new home. Each portrait will tell a story of migration, transmission and transformation. The aim is to capture identities in flux, at the crossroads of two worlds. Through this series, I wish to pay tribute to Belgium’s multicultural richness and invite the viewer to look beyond clichés, to see the individual in all their complexity and dignity.”
– Davit Ibragimovi
Dates: November 19, 2026 – January 31, 2027.
Opening hours: Everyday 2pm – 10pm
Address: 20, rue du Mouton Blanc, 4000 Liège
Opening night: Thursday, November 19, 2026, 6pm
Website: Présentation – Galerie Satellite