ALTÉRITÉS et ANCRAGES - DANIÈLE LEMAIRE & HÉLÈNE LOCOGE AU TRINKHALL MUSEUM

Under the heading ‘Ancrages’, the ground-floor exhibition is dedicated to Danièle Lemaire (1939–2025), an artist who worked at the Ateliers du 94 (La Louvière) for over thirty years. The juxtaposition of her exceptional graphic and pictorial work with that of her mother, Hélène Locoge (1915–2005), a prominent figure on the Hainaut and international art scenes during the second half of the 20th century, enables us to reveal and understand, with ever greater clarity, the network of influences, relationships, legacies, and sensitive, interconnected presences which, in the intimate setting of the studios as in any other context, lie at the heart of every creative process.

The ‘permanent’ exhibition on the first floor has been completely revamped. The works of some twenty artists engage in a free dialogue around and in relation to the question of otherness, or rather the diverse forms of otherness that, at the Trinkhall, never cease to set us in motion. It is a line of tension or a field of forces whose aesthetic, societal and political implications are of the utmost topicality. We are convinced that otherness is never essential but rather institutional or circumstantial. Consequently, when it is, as we wish, freed from the artificial conventions of difference and otherness, is it not simply a form of commonly shared interiority?

Looking forward to seeing you at the Museum,
The Trinkhall Museum team.