Ongoing exhibitions
Permanent mural installation in the center of Brussels until 2026
Bd Anspach 21 / Brussels / B - Mural
Upcoming exhibitions
Botanique Brussels (to be confirmed) - end of 2024
Past exhibitions
2024
Maison de la cultrure de Tournai / B
January - february 2024
2023
“Don’t follow the Guide” - Monographic exhibition
FMVA / Modena / I - March - August 2023Le Pass / Framerie / B
April 2017 - April 2023
2022
PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel de Nivelles/ B
november 2022Pléiades, Festival des arts numériques de Saint-Étienne / F
october 2022PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel de Tubize / B
october 2022PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel de Rixensart / B
September 2022PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel de Rebecq / B
June 2022Centre culturel de Plan Les Ouates / Geneva / CH
24.03.2022 - 24.04.2022Forum des Halles / Louvain la Neuve / B
08.03.2022 - 31.03.2022Chapelle de Boondael / Ixelles / B
09.02.2022 - 20.02.2022Maison Culturelle de Quaregon / B
23.04.2022 - 30.04.2022Grenier à Sel / Avignon / F
01.04.2021 - 29.05.2022
Permanent mural installation in the center of Brussels until 2026
Bd Anspach 21 / Brussels / B - Mural
Le Pass / Framerie / B
April 2017 - April 2023
2021
Biennale Art Culture / Mons / B
20.11.2021 - 29.11.2021Lichtfestival / Gent / B - Mural
10.11.2021 - 14.11.2021LABoral Art Centre / Gijon / ES
22.07.2021 - 23.01.2022“Don’t follow the Guide” - Monographic exhibition
LaVallée / Brussels / B
02.09.2020 - 26.09.2020Le Pass / Framerie / B
April 2017 - April 2022Permanent mural installation in the center of Brussels until 2026
Bd Anspach 21 / Brussels / B - Mural
2020
DIDAM / Bayonne / F
09.10.2020 - 15.11.2020
PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel d’Ittre / B
10.10.2020 - 29.10.2020
Maintenant Festival / Rennes / F - Mural
02.10.2020 - 11.10.2020PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel de Notre Dame de la Chapelle / B
08.02.2020 - 23.02.2020Llum BCN / Barcelona / ES - Mural
14-15-16.02.2020Le Pass / Framerie / B
April 2017 - April 2022
2019
Espace Culturel François Mitterand / Périgueux / F
23.11.2019 - 03.01.2020Lancy en Lumière / Genève / CH - Mural
05.11.2019 - 18.12.2019PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel de Beauvechain / B
03.11.2019 - 24.11.2019Ferme de la Chapelle / Genève / CH
02.11.2019 - 18.12.20199th Cairo Video Festival / New Cairo City / EGY - Mural
09.09.2019 - 30.09.2019Festival Constellation / Metz / F
20.062019 - 07.09.2019A Galerie / Bruxelles / B
02.05.2019 - 29.06.2019PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel de Genappe / B
03.05.2019 - 18.05.2019
Shenzhen Design Week (SZDW) / Shenzhen / CN
19.04.2019 - 30.04.2019
PLAY / Pulsart / Centre Culturel de Braine-l'Alleud / B
12.02.2019 - 24.02.2019LaVallée de l’image / LaVallée / Bruxelles / B
18.04.2019 - 20.04.2019PLAY / Pulsart / Centre culturel de Waterloo / B
15.03.2019 - 05.04.2019Le Pass / Framerie / B
April 2017 - April 2022
2018
Centre de la gravure / La Louvière / B
13.10.2018 - 24.02.2019Urban Spree / Berlin / D
30.05.2018 - 30.06.2018Parcours d'Artistes / Saint-Gilles & Forest / Brussels / B
25.05.2018 - 24.06.2018LaVallée de l’image / LaVallée / Bruxelles / B - Mural
27.04.2018 -28.04.2018Galerie Nardone / Brussels / B
19.04.2018 -12.05.2018Festival Ring / La Manufacture / Nancy / F
12.04.2018 -20.05.2018Le Pass / Framerie / B
April 2017 - April 2022
2017
Die Digitale / Weltkunstzimmer / Dusseldorf / D
10.11.2017 - 26.11.2017Impact 17 / Théatre de Liège / Liège / B
03.11.2017 - 19.11.2017Signal Festival / Prague / CZ
12 - 15.10.2017MAAC / Brussels / B
29.09.2017 - 28.10.2017Galerie Nardone / Brussels / B
18.05.2017 - 17. 6. 2017Le Pass / Framerie / B
April 2017 - April 2022
2016
Medrar for Contemporary Art / Cairo / EGY
19.12.2016 - 19.01.201710 Petits Belges sur la Montagne / Mont des Arts / Brussels / B
13.10.2016 - 11.12.2016Puzzle / Thionville / F
30.09.2016 - 11.11.2016Perte de Signal / Montreal / CA
07 - 27.09.2016L.E.V. festival / Gijon / ES
25.04 - 25.05.2016Jerusalem International Design week / Jerusalem / ISR
19 - 26.05.2016Blue Project Fondation / Barcelona / ES
14 - 30.04.2016Concordia Gallery / Enschede / NL
19.03 - 15.05.2016Semaine Digitale / Cour Mably / Bordeaux / F
05 - 09.04.2016
2015
Nemo / Biennale Internationale Des Arts Numériques
Centquatre Paris / F /Lille 3000, Renaissance / Maison Folie Moulins / Lille / F
I Belgi Barbari e Poeti / Vanderborght / Brussels / B
Graphic Design Festival / Breda / NL
Patch Lab / Gallery Bunkier Sztuki / Cracow / PL
I Belgi Barbari e Poeti / MACRO / Rome / IT
PRINT / La Cambre / Brussels / B
STRP / Eindhoven / NL
SAVE Festival / Moscou / RU
LUX / Valence / F
2014
Nuit Blanche Bruxelles / Brussels / B
Oddstream Festival / Nijmegen / NL
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / Taichung / TW
Design Week / Spazio Logotel / Milano / IT
Digital Choc 2014 / Institut français du Japon / Tokyo / JP
Atsuko Barouh Gallery / Tokyo / JP
Institut français / Kyoto / JP
Le Bon Marché / Paris / F
LKFF Gallery / Brussels / B
2013
Mira Festival / Barcelona / ES
Slick Art fair / Paris / F
Nuit Blanche / Metz / F
LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects Gallery / Brussels / B
Slick Art fair / Brussels / B
EMAF Festival / Osnabrueck / D
Mirage Festival / Lyon / F
Residency at Imal / Brussels / B
2012
Nemo Festival / Paris / F
ShinyToys Festival / Mülheim / D
ElectroniK Festival / Rennes / F
Bozar Electronic Festival / Brussels / B
Scopitone Festival / Nantes / F
Mapping Festival / Geneva / CH
Prizes
Winner of the Milano Design Week 2014 Tech Award
as part of the Timescapes exhibitionWinner of the Art Collector's Prize
Slick Art fair 2013 / Brussels / B
The Book
To celebrate and look back on 10 years of creation, the CFC publishing house has published in 2021 a book about Mécaniques DIscursives
Publications (selected)
“Under the digital flame, the engraving begins to boil.”
“This spatial conquest unfolds through an absolutely spectacular recurring iconography […]. A whole animal kingdom is trapped between Franz Kakfka, Gustav Meyrink and Jérôme Bosch.”
“The fusion of engraving and video mapping, exquisitely displayed across the space, works wonders in maintaining an exciting link to reality as much as evoking the backlighting of a collective imagination.”
Le Vif - Michel Verlinden (Belgique, 2017)
“The caustic aesthetics of a panic-inducing rebus.”
“A critical look at our techno-industrial society through these exquisite corpses with their dark sense of humour.”
“Humour and the absurd unite for better, and even more so, for worse. The big bad wolf may not be what he seems.”
“The trap is perfect. By introducing all this pseudo-data, Yannick Jacquet highlights the absurdity of taking statistically proven information at face value and denounces a society where information overload makes it unintelligible.”
“Off-the-wall, hybrid, and timeless. Phantasmatic, playful, and poetic. There is no shortage of words that could describe these atypical living frescos, which have been presented in ever-unique and wholly original configurations in the four corners of the world: from Shenzhen to Milan, via Jerusalem, Prague, and Montreal.”
La Libre - Gribaumont Gwennaëlle (Belgique, 2021)
“Who needs a perfectly balanced egg in the era of digital projection?”
“A magical installation combines Rube Goldberg with shadow puppets”
Fastcompany - Mark Wilson (USA, 2012)
“There is no designated route to follow as the temporality imposed upon us is more like that of a video game. That is how Mécaniques Discursives plays with the visual: no beginning, no end.”
“To tell, rather than read, stories, each of us will see a projection of ourselves based on our own experiences. Solving mysteries only leads to more questions that go beyond the work’s limits.”
In The Digital Age - Dominique Moulon (France, 2021)
“The installation is meticulously assembled like the mechanism of a fine watch. It follows a truly fictitious itinerary across the walls leading us round in circles. Is it a lab experiment or an interactive blueprint for a future city?.”
“It’s an unlikely alliance. Dreamt up by the wood engraver Fred Penelle and video artist Yannick Jacquet, the installation occupies an intermediary space between Marcel Duchamp’s The Large Glass and a ghost train. Aesthetically? Black and white. Lots of graphics. An intense sonorous experience that can be dismantled. What does it all mean? Derision and cruelty.”
Artension magazine - Marie Girault (France, 2014)
“Images from pop culture, medieval iconography, current affairs magazines, and encyclopaedic plates are plunged into a flowing stream of arrows, graphic symbols, and dotted lines”.
“The exhibition immerses the visitor in a space that exists outside of time. This space becomes the setting for a work whose media we cannot completely grasp, and whose slivery moonlight bathes the installations as part of its seductive power”.
“The arrows and the nervous system that link together each element are only dead ends. There is no hidden meaning, but rather multiple semantic references, like in a game of exquisite corpses”.