Isabelle Delforge

Apparaître - Souffles et clartés d’Ardenne 

(Breaths and light from the Ardennes)

Friday August 22, 2025 to Friday September 19, 2025

Vernissage, August 22 (6-8pm)

Gallery Nostrum plunges into the enigmatic world of Gedinne photographer, Isabelle Delforge. 

Her visual and sound installation invites visitors on an immersive journey through a series of primitive photographs on canvas, taken in the Ardennes region of Namur, and a sound creation exploring the idea of apparition.

In its visual dimension, this exhibition weaves a link between the emergence of the living and the appearance of the printed image. It takes a close look at nature's capacity for self-renewal, using two age-old photographic processes: pinhole and cyanotype. The photos are taken without a camera, using an ordinary box with a small hole in it. The negative is then printed on fabric using the cyanotype process, with its characteristic blue hues. A sound piece associated with the images reflects the diversity of human experiences of apparitions. We hear the voices of four people expressing what the term “appear” evokes for them.

The artist's atypical career has taken her to the four corners of the globe. In her artistic work, she navigates between various plastic art techniques, from sound creation to photography in its most unexpected dimensions.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 6pm.

Vernissage 22 August (18h-20h).

 For further information, to arrange an interview with the artist or to visit outside normal opening hours, please contact the gallery directly at, gallerynostrum@gmail.com