Chloë Delanghe

Chloë Delanghe is a Belgian visual artist and filmmaker. Her work dissects imaginations of intimacy, stitching together stories and images relating to family, class, and the camera itself. Her practice presents itself as an entangled knot of photographs where beloved faces, haunted objects, and rooms intertwine disturbingly yet beautifully. Blurring cinematic and photographic genres, her work examines the implications of the act of looking itself.

Delanghe’s first book, Reasons to Be Cheerful, was published in 2016 by WIELS and Motto Books. Her mid-length film Hexham Heads, in collaboration with Mattijs Driesen, premiered at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival and won La giuria studenti del Concorso Pesaro Nuovo Cinema at The 60th Pesaro Film Festival. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Tokyo.

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Magic, a portrait of Joris

Chloë Delanghe, Belgium, 2018, 15’

In Magic, a portrait of Joris, images sourced from different periods in time are glued together. Worn-out VHS footage filmed by the artist’s father is placed beside 8mm images she filmed herself. Both have the same subject: one boy, both a son and a brother. Connecting images of then and now, a new narrative of remembering opens up.