On January 13, 2026, Castel hosts LHOOQ, a performance by Marie De Decker conceived as a space of research, where gesture, material, and light are engaged in an unfolding process.
Marie De Decker’s practice operates at the intersection of drawing, sculpture, and image. Her work questions the capacity of materials to carry memory and to transform our perception of space. Gold, central to her practice, is never used as ornamentation; it functions as an active medium, responsive to light variations and the movement of the viewer.
The performance presented during LHOOQ makes visible the preparatory time of the artwork. The artist intervenes live on a glass surface covered with gold, working through subtraction rather than addition. The drawing emerges by removing material, allowing light to be revealed and the creative process to unfold in real time. Each gesture is irreversible, fully engaging the body and inscribing the action within a shared temporality with the audience.
A live musical composition accompanies the performance. Rather than illustrating the action, it operates as a parallel structure to the plastic gesture, extending the viewer’s attention and concentration within an expanded space of perception and listening.
The forms that emerge—organic lines and motifs inspired by the living world—are part of a broader reflection on cycles, transformation, and permanence. Through this performance, the work is not presented as a finished object, but as a transitional state, activated in the present moment.
LHOOQ thus offers an experience in which performance becomes a site of observation: observation of gesture, of material in transformation, and of perception itself.
Curator: Agathe Anglionin
Organised by: Fabienne Cordier
