Certain indigenous people, in Africa or elsewhere, have a space reserved for meeting their ancestors. People go there to pay tribute to their values, converse with them and take their advice. This exhibition is built around this meeting. The Wittert Museum collections are revisited as though looking over the shoulder of the painter and poet Yvon Vandycke who will have a major exhibition dedicated to him at La Boverie Museum from 10 September to 24 October, 2021. There will be portraits on display by everyone form Dürer, Ensor or Spilliaert via Rembrandt and Goya, depicting their own or other faces in an array of vanity, masks and repeated death. Critical irony and melancholy, animal fraternity, the strength of muted cries, the great laughter of life, all the things reawakened here have inhabited the thoughts and shapes, the way of being in Yvon's world.