Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Steven Fillet
Belle-Île
6 September—1 November 2026
MACS, Hornu, Belgium
Earlier this year, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Steven Fillet presented work from their artistic collaboration for the first time under the title As you wish at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels. This autumn a new chapter follows at MACS Grand-Hornu with Belle-Île: a series of seven monumental paintings to be shown in the Salle Pont.
Belle-Île came into being in the autumn of 2024 on Belle-Île-en-Mer, an island off the coast of Brittany. The project took the artists out of their familiar studio and into the open air, in a landscape that eludes control: open in character, in constant flux, and perpetually eluding itself.
At the edge of the ocean a canvas five by twenty metres was laid out. A striking white field, abstract and pure, contrasting with the surrounding space where the excess of reality holds sway: water, wind, light… Those hundred square metres of white space – canvas and dance floor at once – are not filled in but slowly occupied through movement and drawing that are, from the outset, inseparable. What emerges is an accumulation, a slow sedimentation of gestures and time that settles layer upon layer, ultimately making presence visible: a place, two bodies, a moment.
Amnesia
Live performance in collaboration with Alain Franco
In dialogue with the works on canvas, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker also presents a new solo: Amnesia. Inspired by Beethoven’s last piano sonata, Opus 111 (Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111), the performance extends as a single horizontal line across the full length of the Salle Pont. The space evokes the openness of the ocean, the horizon of Belle-Île where the project began. The solo, by contrast, stands as a fragile, temporary inscription in time and space, caught in the tension between remembering and forgetting. As the drawing is built up from distinct layers of time, Alain Franco develops a ‘musical dramaturgy’. In what he calls a ‘counterpoint of fields’, dance, music and image are placed alongside one another without being fused into a single whole.
Saturday 5 September, 6:30 and 8 pm
Sunday 13 September, Sunday 4 October, Sunday 25 October and Sunday 1 November, at 2, 3:30 and 5 pm
Excerpt from the performance will given during the press conference.