Komplot (Brussels, Belgium) presents they built up the picture, Caroline Reveillaud’s first solo exhibition in Belgium, from January 16 to February 28, 2026.

Extending her reflections on images and their modes of appearance, Caroline Reveillaud has been conducting research since 2022 on the animal figure of the freshwater bivalve (river mussel) and its interactions with humans. In this work, she explores the notion of a “sensible image,” which, at the heart of a network of exchanges, connects natural, human, and social histories and highlights an ecology of our relationship with the living world.

The exhibition they built up the picture takes as its starting point her ongoing film Biomimético-imago. Within Komplot’s space, she unfolds a constellation of sculptural cabinets, drawings, texts, references, and a sound piece by Élodie Lecat, an ensemble that, when assembled, offers a fragmented version of the film, spanning from the research phase to its realization.

Drawing on the language of documentary and experimental cinema, Biomimético-imago. is built from scientific and philosophical sources. It first explores notions of the naturalist gaze, between museum, conservation, collection, specimen, and drawing; then the biological revolution and the emergence of new tools for understanding; and finally, the sensory and collective field experience, where observers, lookouts, and practices of participatory science open up new perspectives.

Biomimético-imago received research and production support from the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) and research grant support from ADAGP for the continuation of her research on naturalism. In co-production with Gilbard. Komplot is generously supported by the FWB, COCOF, VGC, and the municipality of Anderlecht.

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PUBLIC PROGRAMME
15.01.2026  – Opening 

Conversation between Caroline Reveillaud and Thibaud Leplat
12:00-13:30
Amphi Horta – Arba ESA, Rue du Midi, 144, 1000 Bruxelles

Thibaud Leplat will be in conversation with artist Caroline Reveillaud about her practice and her exhibition they built up the picture at Komplot, which opens on the same day.

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Live set by Élodie Lecat
18:45 (40mn)
Komplot, Brussels. Place du conseil, 4, Raadsplein, 1070.

At the opening, Élodie Lecat will perform a live set created for the exhibition they built up the picture. This original work emerges from a combination of diverse sound sources: recordings from the film shoots and Caroline Reveillaud’s sound library blend with Élodie’s own creations and the sounds she has collected over time. By merging these sonic materials, the piece offers an immersive experience where images and sounds interact and complement each other, enriching the concept of a sensible image that the artist unfolds at Komplot.

Élodie Lecat is a French artist. She divides her time between Paris and the Hautes-Alpes, where she organizes the Résidence residency each year. Alongside her artistic practice, Élodie Lecat devoted several years to the study of the Chinese language and completed a master’s degree in ancient Chinese literature at INALCO. She then turned to composing experimental sound pieces. In her musical performances, she blends recorded sources with sample loops created from a wide range of materials: analog synthesizers, voice, drum machines, and effects pedals. Anne-Lou Vicente describes her music as “an electronic reverie with troubled, strident, and airy accents, during which the environment, variously urban, aquatic, telluric, and eccentric, becomes one with you.”

Following the sound performance, chef Camille Van Meenen will offer a reimagined version of the classic mussels‑and‑fries dish.

02.02-15.02.2026
Online Screening of Films by Caroline Reveillaud: Summa iOS (2019); Glitch (2022)
On the occasion of Caroline Reveillaud’s first solo exhibition in Belgium, we are making two additional films available online for free on a platform from February 2 to 15, 2026.

Summa iOS, 2019, 28 mn
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Summa iOS is a film composed of sequences of landscapes explored in Italy and elsewhere — mountains, hills, cliffs, and coasts alternate, revealing the nuances of camera movement: focus, zoom, tracking shots, and more. A female voice-over delivers reflections on the historical construction of landscape as an object of aesthetic emotion and as a philosophical representation of the world. (…)

Glitch, 2022, 13 mn
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Glitch is a visual and auditory journey through a photographic series of reproductions of classical and Renaissance paintings collected by the artist. Composed of eight successive stories, it opens and closes with two sequences of words describing the content of the images. (…)

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