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02/12/2026 - 05/02/2026
Galerie Bacqueville
32 rue Thiers,
59800 Lille
The Bacqueville gallery is pleased to present Lieven Hendriks' first solo show in its Lille space. The exhibition brings together works that play on the tension between opposites.
In his painting practice, Lieven Hendriks explores the tension between opposites, as suggested by the title Night & Day. By oscillating between shadow and light, clarity and blur, truth and illusion, his works offer a reflection on how we perceive images and the enduring capacity of painting to create illusions. Indeed, seemingly simple or banal subjects—a fingerprint on a fogged windowpane, a blurred landscape reminiscent of out-of-focus photographs, cracked and whitewashed shop windows, a ray of light projected onto a wall—create the illusion of depth or texture. They thus blur the line between the painted surface and familiar references encountered daily, creating a sense of déjà vu.
For Lieven Hendriks, technical mastery is never an end in itself, but a tool to make visible this subtle interplay between reality and illusion.
Galerie Bacqueville
32 rue Thiers,
59800 Lille
The Bacqueville gallery is pleased to present Lieven Hendriks' first solo show in its Lille space. The exhibition brings together works that play on the tension between opposites.
In his painting practice, Lieven Hendriks explores the tension between opposites, as suggested by the title Night & Day. By oscillating between shadow and light, clarity and blur, truth and illusion, his works offer a reflection on how we perceive images and the enduring capacity of painting to create illusions. Indeed, seemingly simple or banal subjects—a fingerprint on a fogged windowpane, a blurred landscape reminiscent of out-of-focus photographs, cracked and whitewashed shop windows, a ray of light projected onto a wall—create the illusion of depth or texture. They thus blur the line between the painted surface and familiar references encountered daily, creating a sense of déjà vu.
For Lieven Hendriks, technical mastery is never an end in itself, but a tool to make visible this subtle interplay between reality and illusion.