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From 18 July until 15 August 2026

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Dominique HOUCMANT | Goldo (BE, 1962)

Après le déluge, 2021

Photograph on Dibond

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Dominique Houcmant is a Belgian photographer from Liège. Over the years, he has built up a body of work that is both vast and coherent. Faces, expressions, smiles… with Dominique Houcmant, alias Goldo, the human being is always at the centre: famous artists and anonymous fans, figures from Liège folklore and one-night revellers… He is also a photographer of the subtle. He draws out the very details of objects and places – details that allow us to pay attention to the unnoticed aesthetic dimension of the material itself. His handling of light and his mastery of the interplay of textures – which are never unambiguous – thus blur our everyday perceptions. ​

 

Since 2006, he has been taking photographs from his balcony almost every day. The same shot, the same perspective, the same landscape. The Ourthe Canal in the foreground with its few houseboats, the weeping willows sheltering them, and the twin chimneys of a power station. A landscape that is half bucolic, half industrial, somewhere between the open-air cafés along the banks of the Marne and London’s Battersea Power Station. In the distance, on a clear day, one can make out Cointe Hill, the Great War Memorial tower and the basilica crowning the hill. 

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A resident of the Garde-Dieu neighbourhood in Angleur, who was initially stranded in his flat whilst waiting for the waters of the Ourthe to recede, he set out to document and preserve a record of the 2021 floods through his photographs. 

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He presents a photo essay that captures the faces, moments of solidarity, and the hopes and despair experienced by those affected by the floods. These images, taken in Angleur in the Liège region, are so powerfully evocative that they inevitably remind us of what also unfolded in Namur, in the Bomel neighbourhood, and in many other places. Behind this disaster lies a social

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