2010

WHAT HAPPENS HERE,
STAYS HERE
Maes & Matthys, Antwerp (B)


2009

GROUP SHOW
Maes & Matthys, Antwerp (B)

SHORT TRACKS
Wiels Brussels (B)

THERE'S (NO)W ROMANTICISM
Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Brussels (B)

LET'S TALK ABOUT
PAINTING I & II
Le Stand, Lyon (F)

OVERLAP
Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris (F)

SPRING BREAK
Wiels Off-Site, Brussels (B)


2008

THIS IS NO ORDINARY LOVE,
Galerie Desimpel Brussels (B)

ARIANNE DE ROTSCHILD ART PRIZE, Brussels (B)

WINTER FOR A YEAR
Project-Room Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels (B)

A TOTAL ECLIPSE OF MY HEART, Galerie Xprssns, Hamburg (D)

DON'T ASK ME TO DANCE
Noailles Project, Brussels (B)

O.K.
Café Central, Brussels (B)

ZERO GRAVITY
Galerie Justin Morin
Ecole Sup. d'Art de Metz (F)


2007

THIS IS NOT AMERICA
Konsortium, Dusseldorf (D)

HAPPY END
Chapelle des Calvairiennes
Le Kiosque, Mayenne (F)

PETITS BOULOTS
CodeBuro, Brussels (B)

LA MEDIATINE
Bruxelles (B)


2006

MESSAGE PERSONNEL
Festival Maïs, Bruxelles (B)

EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT
CODE/STRATE, Bruxelles (B)

GRAVITY ALWAYS WINS
Galerie Bortier, Bruxelles (B)

LA CAMBRE PEINTURE
340, Bruxelles (B)


2005

MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS
Tourcoing (F)

Recyclart, Bruxelles (B)


2003

LA CAMBRE
Bruxelles (B)

A former launderette, located on the Saint-Denis Square in the heart of Forest/Vorst, is appropriated by two artists simultaneously. The first space allows the presentation of an installation, while the other side invites bidimensional works (painting, collage drawing…). The objective is to confront two different interventions which dialog and answer each other. The two artists decide themselves to work together and express the affinities between their respective practices.

For Speedy Wash, Martin Laborde presents a new work, Index n°1, a bidimensional version of an existing sculpture. This new interpretation of a former volume reactivates the artist's approach to sculpture, by exctracting it from its base on the ground.

Jean-Baptiste Bernadet exhibits a painting on cardboard, derived from a series in black and white shown previously at the Chapelle des Calvairiennes in Mayenne (F) in 2007. Colors have been added to the old image and the result will be presented like a reactivated and condensed version of the show in Mayenne.

Together, the artists have also created a cardboard support for beer glasses, which will be distributed in 2500 copies in the cafés located on the Saint-Denis Square during the exhibition. This work, a direct allusion to the title of the exhibition - Spring Break - is an in-between support and painting. 

Finally, the title of the project also reflects the artists' desire to show in the context of Speedy Wash a singular work, an interval, with regard to their respective production.