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M-resident Tom Hallet

The M-residency of Tom Hallet

Kunstwerk van M-resident Tom Hallet

Tom Hallet

M offers Tom Hallet a five-month residency at Cas-co. Hallet (born 1990 in Leuven) has a multidisciplinary practice and mainly creates drawings and sculptures. His work is always nourished by a search for representation and recognition.

Kunstwerk van M-resident Tom Hallet

Tom Hallet

Hallet focuses on drawing and sculpture, two media which he joins into a constant dialogue with each other and with the spectator. Central to his work are queer themes and dominant narratives of love, identity, violence and loss.

 

As an artist, Hallet starts from his personal history and experiences. He creates very detailed landscapes – sometimes abstract, sometimes figurative – in which bodies merge with nature. Hallet combines these drawings with fleshly sculptures. These sculptures offer shelter as canopies or allow new life to emerge: plants appear from their earth-filled cracks.

M Leuven, foto: Sanne Delcroix

M Leuven, foto: Sanne Delcroix

The titles of his work are like letters, dedicated to lovers, queer icons, but also to their aggressors. By hanging them together in the same room, he creates an enclosed safe space in which they can find an opportunity for healing.

 

Hallet wants his installations to challenge us to think about the stories we tell ourselves about representation, social constructions and history

 

Fun fact, Tom Hallet has already been a production assistant for M, for Sol Lewitt's exhibition.

Nature represents queerness at its best: non-conforming, transformative and genderless

Tom Hallet
M-resident

Presentation

During M-IDZOMER, from 28 to 31.07, Hallet will present the result: large-scale drawings and sculptures that enter into dialogue with two prehistoric millstones from M's collection. In a visual universe where mythology, queerness and personal chronicles merge, Hallet questions representation, social constructions and history. The presentation is started daily by a performance of violinist Victor Guaita and dancer Jacob Storer. 

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Tom Hallet

Tom Hallet

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M-resident Tom Hallet met werk

M Leuven, foto: Jaquine Hamzaoui

Tom Hallet

Leuven

Tom Hallet (born 1990 in Leuven, Belgium), lives and works in Brussels. He is one of the four founders of SOIL Collective, an artists' and curators' collective. He recently exhibited in the group exhibition 'Orangerie', in Het Paviljoen at KASK, Ghent. This summer, he exhibited at the Antwerp Queer Arts Festival and at 'Regenerate' at Wiels in Brussels. He did a residency at AAIR Antwerp in 2020 and participated in Brussels Gallery Weekend, as part of Generation Brussels. His work was also previously on view at STEMS Gallery for the exhibition 'Digestive Disaster, Lucky Star'. Hallet was selected for the 2016 Friends of S.M.A.K. Prize.

https://tomhallet.hotglue.me

Kunstwerk van M-resident Tom Hallet

Tom Hallet

M-resident Tom Hallet aan het werk

Tom Hallet

Kunstwerk van M-resident Tom Hallet

Tom Hallet

M-residentie M Leuven

M Leuven, foto: Sanne Delcroix

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