Peer View is a series of evenings where artists are invited to share their ways of working and to delve deeper into the research behind a finished work of art. For this third session, we invite two visual artists: Olivia Hernaïz and Dries Segers

10/06/2026, 17-21h

After an introduction to a project or work – completed or in progress – we focus on the creative process that often remains out of sight once a work is finished. We can think of questions such as: what kinds of dialogues with the world do artists create during the development of new work? What relationships do they have with their sources of inspiration? Which texts are read, which (personal) archives consulted, which conversations held, which field trips undertaken? And how is thinking and working shaped through this material?

In other words: how about the work behind the work?

Rather than a comparison or a dialogue between the two artistic practices, each Peer View unfolds two different approaches in order to show a scope of ways of working. The audience is warmly invited to ask questions during a conversation afterwards.

Each evening we invite two artists working within the same discipline. During the upcoming series we focuses on: musicians (25 March), social practitioners (8 April), visual artists (10 June), and documentary film makers (24 June).

Dries Segers is a visual artist, photographer, matter bender, publisher and researcher. In his interdisciplinary field of work, he explores the value of human and earthly elements to start collaborative processes. The work shifts from work made out of matter which is tangible (rain, air, water, trees) in other cases he uses and activates invisibles (radiation, light waves, pollutions) always focused on material and silver based photography. His quest for togetherness leads to visualizations of the collaboration between species, raising questions about ownership, exploitation, and the protection of our shared world.

Olivia Hernaïz’ practice is multiple. She first studied law, and while practicing as a copyright lawyer, she completed a BFA at La Cambre, ENSAV in Brussels. From painting and drawing to digital printing, human size installations, model making, sound, and a board game, Hernaïz chooses a medium according to her intentions for a project. Through the assemblage of materials – ideas of passersby, derelict houses, political logos, bank slogans and fables – she tries to deconstruct collective beliefs. Dialogue is at the core of Olivia Hernaïz’s work. Her projects are all excuses to start conversations with others. She is a mother as well. 

Curated and organised by Dorine van Meel and Jesse van Winden

Location: Becue top floor (no elevator)
Chaussee de Forest 138, 1060

Entrance: free donation
Please bring cash for the bar and food

Doors open, food and bar: 17h
Start: 18h
End: 20:30h, with possibility to continue informally

Many thanks to 1060CultureCultuur and the bicommunautary teams for culture in St Gillis/St Gilles for the support!