Xavier Verhoest

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Xavier Verhoest’s work

By Dale Webster, ex lecturer in Art History, Kirklees College, UK The first of Xavier Verhoest’s images that I encountered were in a small exhibition space in Nairobi. They were large pictures which seemed to resist the confinement of the gallery space and expand into a picture space which was both figurative and abstract, ...

Broken Texts

Broken Texts by Xavier Verhoest (from 2011 till today) It is essential that my work exists outside any defined historical timeline. I don’t want the viewer to recognize a place through a romantic or political lens. What I seek to evoke is a condition—timeless, persistent, and heartbreakingly repetitive. You can’t look ...