Porcelaine et faits divers, the duo’s first museum exhibition in Belgium, offers a ret­ro­spec­tive, immersive journey where art converses with humanity’s darkest drives. Throughout the show, Bachelot & Caron summon forgotten myths, debauched banquets, unsettling images and hybrid forms. Through photography, ceramics and performance, their universe is as fascinating as it is disquieting. Crime becomes opera, cruelty takes on a festive air, and (dark) humour runs through each scene, laying reality bare. A sensory and mental journey, both unsettling and seductive, which errs as close as possible to that which our era winces from most: desire, violence, beauty, and transgression.

Louis Bachelot (Algiers, 1960) and Marjolaine Caron (Paris, 1963) initially worked, respec­tive­ly, as a scenog­ra­ph­er and a costume designer for theatre, cinema and opera, before turning to editorial illus­tra­tion. For twenty years they notably col­lab­o­rat­ed with Le Nouveau Détective, developing a distinctive aesthetic centred on the fait divers – the short-form crime and mis­ad­ven­ture stories of the French press – blending staged photography, digital retouching and painterly effects. In recent years, their practice has expanded to ceramics and performance, which they integrate into large-scale instal­la­tions with baroque overtones.