04.04.2025
FINISSAGE EVENT  
The Musicologists & Maison Caca

Medusa is a nomadic, Brussels-based collective that supports artistic exchange platforming new emerging artists. 
Medusa is currently run by Tim Evers, Saskia Smith, Egon Moles Le Bailly & Lisa De Meyer. 
Anna De Wandeler is their legal advisor. 
Medusa was founded by Sacha Verleyen & Noa Verkeyn.
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Hieronymus Bosch’s Mediaeval paintings crystallises all that which Raphaëlle Bertran’s (b. 1992, FR) seeks to encounter in art: disturbing strangeness, grandeur and despair, ecstasy and abyss. Raphaëlle’s paintings likewise depict a strange world of multitude scenarios where anguish and euphoria are somehow deeply entangled. The figures are placed in a sort of desert of neutral colours, where one can see very little greenery or natural elements. The earthly landscapes of rocky mountains are populated by multitude fragments of various ongoing scenarios: this juxtaposition of different fragments is essential to Raphaelle’s work. She argues that “the fragmentary prevents meaning from being fixed, it prevents an encompassing reading of the work and locks the scene in atemporality, where we cannot situate ourselves in a particular period, an unstable universe where meaning escapes.”
Spray Paint serves as the basis of Raphaelle’s figures, giving them a ghostly, spectral aspect by the whitish halo it creates: “The ghost is nothing but a paradoxical entity bringing the past inside the present. The paintings that I create are like so many freeze frames on multiple chaos, endlessly occurring apocalypses that cannot be escaped.”