About

Joris Ghekiere’s work is notoriously difficult to navigate. He painted in multiple styles and explored different techniques. He was fascinated by uncomplicated beauty, but challenges our conceptions of beauty by means of an unusual range of colours and distorted compositions. Ghekiere was a great admirer of Nietzsche, and was fascinated by the fact that Nietzsche loved to dance. Actually, dance plays a role throughout Nietzsche’s writing as a litmus test for any value, idea, practice or person. Does it dance? Does it catalyse a joyful affirmation of life? These also seem like interesting …