Charlotte Grandgaignage explores themes such as grief, transience, and the fear of death in her artistic practice. In her recent ink drawings of flowers, she explores the connection between beauty and decay, as well as the symbolic meaning of flowers in rituals of farewell.
In her installations and assemblages, she also uses familiar objects and organic elements to create space for memory and personal experiences of loss.

Saad Jalal is a Moroccan cartoonist and comic book artist with more than twenty years of experience. In January 2026, he lost his six-year-old son due to complications from craniopharyngioma. This loss has profoundly shaped both his life and his work. Through his drawings, he transforms personal pain into images about grief, resilience, and the healing power of art.

Inge Huysmans and Kim Aertbeliën are two emerging scenographers (third-year Scenography students at KASKA DKO Antwerp). Together, they are developing Antigone, an artistic practice in which they explore how scenography can make memories of absent people tangible and present in space. Drawing on conversations, stories and personal objects, they create scenographic portraits of what is absent, yet continues to live on.

Solmaz Niazi (1981, Iran) is an Iranian-Belgian visual artist. Her artistic practice moves between installation, sculpture, and performance. Personal experiences, memory, and loss often form the starting point of her work, but through the creative process these are transformed into spatial and physical experiences that extend beyond the personal narrative.
Solmaz works with light, reflection, water, glass, movement, and the presence of the body. She creates ever-changing situations in which the position and movement of the viewer help shape how the work is experienced. Themes such as presence and absence, time, transformation, and the tension between vulnerability and structure run as recurring threads throughout her practice.

Miles Fishler works primarily as a photographer and has a strong interest in co-creation and bringing people together around themes such as death, loss, and remembrance.
Through playful approaches involving photography, movement, music, conversation, rituals, and more, they explore ways to make the unspoken open to discussion and tangible. At the heart of their practice is the power of shared experiences and the connections that emerge between people.