‘I saw my future in your eyes’

Marthe Ramm Fortun selects several portraits from the BOZAR triptych exhibition - Focus on the other (Faces Now, Faces Then, The Sultan’s World) - and invites you to reinterpret them in her performances. Fortun focuses on intimate details in order to create this narrative. She improvises, refers to classical themes, and uses visual and poetic elements to create work that starts a dialogue with the audience. Her conversation performances are a quiet revolt against what Walter Benjamin called the disappearance of the oral culture.

Marthe Ramm Fortun graduated from HISK in Ghent in 2014. Her work was on show at Performa 13 in New York and Playground 14 in Leuven’s Museum M. From 7 March to 11 April she is exhibiting at the Komplot Art Gallery in Brussels.