![]() ![]() “Due to financing and because stop-motion is very time-consuming, it was impossible for us to go everywhere, but it definitely boosted my confidence.” Expectations for her master’s project are thus very high, even though the script for Ada & Odile was rewritten countless times. Her endearing bachelor’s film My Label has been picked up by no fewer than 24 film festivals. I have loved that since I was a child and my favourite part of the process is still working on my sets and my dolls.” This traditional approach has become her trademark and it is catching on. “Despite my initial aversion to it, stop-motion has really become my thing because it allows me to work with my hands. “I had never been taught fine arts so I had never developed my own style, but I have always been a passionate reader and writer.” She discovered the Animated Film programme at a higher education fair, and she realized that she could also express the stories in her head through imagery. Having completed the general secondary school programme in Latin and Languages, Sint-Lukas was not the obvious choice for Janne Janssens. “I can’t do the same thing every day, I have to be able to experience new places, but I will certainly return to Brussels, my new home.”Ģ1, Zoersel, Audio-visual Arts – Animation ![]() Because he also wants to see the art world from the other side, he will start a six-month job at the Pi Artworks gallery at the Istanbul Biennial in September. We are a transitional generation and we want to change things in a world where everything goes incredibly fast.” His work – he calls it visual activism – has been shown in group exhibitions at Bozar, Recyclart, and DOK. It is really nice when people tell you that they understand what you are doing, and don’t just think it is pretty. I wanted to reflect that in my work, especially because I am not the only person who wrestles with it. I used to have to change colour a lot depending on my location. The portraits are of my friends in my communities in Brussels and Johannesburg. ![]() “My very thematic work around queer identity occasionally clashed with the school’s more conceptual approach, but this place taught me to be open, including to criticism, and to take what I need and leave what I don’t.” His master’s project is about masculinities and how space can affect identity and gender. ![]() After studying photography in Johannesburg, where he has since also exhibited, he decided to continue developing his skills at Sint-Lukas. “Perhaps that is because I didn’t know anybody, so I no longer had to hide, but mostly it’s because the local (LGBT) community was so welcoming. Since he quit his master’s in Political Science and settled here, he has felt liberated. He grew up as Hugo Fraysse in the countryside in the south of France, where he found the traditional gender roles to be too restrictive. I have grown so much,” Ugo Woatzi tells us. “When I arrived in Brussels, I was 23 but still a baby. “In the future, I hope to combine a job as a graphic designer with activist fashion collections so that I can keep designing with a message and I don’t have to adapt to the demands of ‘the consumer’.” While she works on her own new collection, she is also starting an Erasmus internship at a graphic design company in France. In July, she will release a joint collection with her brother Loan, who runs the activist fashion line Kérosène. The skin of angora rabbits is not carefully shaved, it is usually just ripped off their bodies, skin and all.” Verbanck now only buys sustainable clothing and she hasn’t been to Zara for a year and a half. Using the computer programme Photosounder, I transformed the wailing of an angora rabbit into images that I then lasered onto my collection. About the what? “People often just talk about slow fashion, but that sounds so naïve and well-meaning. Everyone knows that Primark clothing is made by children, but did you know that the Aral Sea dried up due to cotton production, that thousands of farmers in India committed suicide under the pressure of their killer contracts with Monsanto, and that half of all clothing is thrown away?” Verbanck was shocked and that literally becomes clear in her master’s collection, for which she used recycled clothes to highlight data about the fast fashion industry. “My first idea for my master’s project was to do something about the polluting meat industry, but one of my teachers, who knew that I was interested in ecology, suggested that I start looking into the sustainability of the fashion industry. She studied Fashion at school in Aalst and enrolled in Graphic Design partly because she was looking for a broader programme but also because the fashion world seemed too cutthroat. Matti Verbanck admits that two years ago, she was still a shopaholic and that she would go to Zara almost every day. ![]()
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