PLAKT
Aline Bouvy - Letter to my future self
02.02.'26 through 02.05.'26 - Aline Bouvy with Letter to my future self
Aline Bouvy’s image in the PLAKT series, titled Letter to my future self, depicts an old postcard of a child posting a letter in a mailbox. The visual style is simple and softly nostalgic: clear lines, saturated colors, a dreamlike composition reminiscent of illustrations from another era. What initially appears innocent and familiar proves layered upon closer inspection. The image raises questions about expectations—about who we were, who we are, and who we hope to become. The letter to one’s future self is both a sign of curiosity and doubt: an attempt to grasp an identity that remains perpetually in motion.
Aline Bouvy (b. 1974, Watermael-Boitsfort) is an artist whose practice continuously explores the boundaries between identity, body, perception, and norm. Her work employs diverse media—from photography and installation to sculpture and performance—and often focuses on moments and postures that exist in the margins, where individuality and physicality collide with social conventions. She reveals what is typically pushed aside or ignored: the frayed edges of behavior, desire, and self-image.
Art to the Rhythm of the City
With PLAKT, artlead, publisher of art editions and objects, invited twelve artists to create images in poster form. These prints emerged to the rhythm of the city: sometimes unnoticed, sometimes unexpectedly, appearing on walls, façades, fences and billboards across several Flemish cities and in Brussels.
As unpredictable as the appearance of these images is the collaboration with the artists. Valérian Goalec’s proposal was not an image, but a carrier: a steel wall sculpture inspired by the advertising frames encountered daily in the Paris metro. The impossibility of distributing these steel structures in public space led to the development of a second chapter of the PLAKT project.
At various cultural institutions located in the geographical periphery, where the posters had not previously appeared in the streetscape, this wall sculpture will function as a support for the prints of the other eleven artists. Here too, an element of unpredictability remains: each institution determines the order and duration of display.
At Abby, PLAKT can be found in the underpass near the museum garden.
The images for PLAKT were created by Céline Mathieu, Michel François, Camille Orso, Peter Downsbrough, Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei, Aline Bouvy, Geert Goiris, Tine Guns, Mekhitar Garabedian, Gerard Herman, and Katja Mater. The frame is a work by Valérian Goalec.
PLAKT is a project by artlead, in collaboration with IKOB, Eupen; CC Strombeek; De Warande, Turnhout; Kunsthal Mechelen; NW, Aalst; De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle; Kapel De Rozenkrans, Koksijde; Abby, Kortrijk; and C-mine, Genk.
