PROGRAMME
Visits and talks
Thu · 22 January · 3pm–5pm
Open doors – preview
launch of the Photo Brussels Festival
Sunday 25 January · 3pm–5pm
Opening
Mothers–Daughters — invisible lineages and
The Weariness of Angels
conversations with the artists
Artist-to-artist conversations with Delphine d'Elia and Monya Ghabantani
. A double dialogue on lineage, memory, absence, mourning, and the discreet magic of analogue processes.
Saturday · 31 January · 3pm–5pm
Secret chemistry: from alchemists to the Rosicrucians
A guided tour of occult and Symbolist photographic practices: early chemical experiments, Spiritualist imagery, Pictorialism, esoteric salons, and Rosicrucian aesthetics.
Saturday 7 February · 5pm–7pm (special event)
Annick Donkers – UNIDENTIFIED: believing in extraterrestrials
An exceptional evening with photographer Annick Donkers and her photo project/book UN-IDENTIFIED, exploring UFO-related beliefs, abduction stories, maps of extraterrestrial bases, and cosmic mythologies. Programme: presentation, discussion, and book signing.
Trailer: UFO festivals, conspiracy diagrams, and starry nights — when documentary slips into cosmic belief.
Sunday · 8 February · 3pm–5pm
Mothers, daughters, ghosts: rewriting the family album
A focus on Delphine d'Elia's cyanotype series. Multi-generational portraits, archive overlays, and reflections on invisible lineage and delicate gestures of repair.
Sunday 15 February · 3pm–5pm
The weariness of angels – exhausted guardians
Discover the photographic work of Monya Ghabantani, exploring sculpted angels, erosion, mourning rituals, and human fragility mirrored in stone guardians.
Sunday 22 February · 3pm–5pm
Images as talismans – future heritages
Closing event bringing together the artists and the exhibition curator. A meeting around images as talismans, relics, traces of life, and future memory.
