Joe Bradley in conversation with Melanie Deboutte
Filmed in Brussels, the artist discusses his exhibition New Paltz.
Joe Bradley and Melanie Deboutte, Director and Curator at the Roger Raveel Museum, discuss the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery, New Paltz (2022).
“I don’t feel like a little drill sergeant who is ordering the paint around and bending things to my own will, it feels like it’s sort of the opposite. The paintings appear to me more or less as they appear to a stranger walking into the gallery.” — Joe Bradley
Melanie Deboutte is Curator of the Roger Raveel Museum in Machelen-aan-de-Leie. After studying Art Science at the Universities of Leuven and Ghent, she explored the Belgian art world as a staff member at various museums, from S.M.A.K., Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens and Mu.ZEE to M Leuven, Z33 and M HKA. She has been working as an independent curator and researcher since 2013 and has organised several exhibitions, often with a particular focus on the development of contemporary art from the 1960s to the 1980s in Belgium.