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(EN) The first time I encountered a meticulously painted work by Thomas Decuypere (b. 2000, Kortrijk) was when, in a flash while walking by in the painting studio of Sint-Lucas in Ghent, I saw a painted self-portrait with a pale blue mouth mask, in which the artist, in a classic three-quarter profile, looked at the viewer with anxious eyes. Or was the fear I saw in the piercing gaze so emphatically above the mouth mask mainly a projection of my own feelings?
Me, who was already in such a lousy state mentally when the corona pandemic broke out in Belgium too in March 2020 and was afraid …