"Standing before a work by Fabre, we know not who is hiding behind these looks, nor what they are hiding, nor how they perceive us.
Jan Fabre is a Belgian visual artist and writer of performance art, theater, and opera, as well as a choreographer. His multifarious work encompasses sculpture, installation, drawing, video, staging, choreography... Whatever genre he approaches, the artist systematically pushes its boundaries. His is an art of confrontation, underlining the finitude of an idealistic quest and highlighting the duality of a Janus figure manifesting opposites to better transcend them: past/future, life/death, dream/nightmare, discipline/chaos, physical body/spiritual body, reality/fiction, stillness/metamorphosis, appearance/disappearance. Jan Fabre, through his subversive and suggestive work, provokes controversy and emotion.