PCAI is pleased to announce that PCAI collection artist Angelo Plessas will be part of the exhibition Picture Perfect at Bozar -Center of Fine Arts, Brussels.
The exhibition explores beauty as both a system of oppression and a force of emancipation. “Beauty is a relational force, a vehicle for emancipation, but it also has a dark side that puts pressure on the body and young people and, above all, leads to hypersexualization – primarily, though not exclusively, of women,” says curator Christel Tsilibaris.
Picture Perfect unfolds in two parts: deconstruction and recuperation. It bridges the gap between historical canons and today’s obsession with face filters, illustrating how photography both produces and liberates our images. Bringing together work by fifty-five artists, from Cindy Sherman to Zanele Muholi, the exhibition responds to a pressing need: recapturing the gaze.
With works by: Ibrahim Ahmed, Yumna Al-Arashi, Francesca Allen, Sarah Amrani, Susan Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Alexandra Barancovà & Jae Perris, Baloji, Valérie Belin, François Bellabas, Kwame Brathwaite, Nakeya Brown, Juno Calypso, William Cobbing, John Coplans, Eli Cortiñas, Nicola Costantino, Laure Cottin Stefanelli, Mélanie Courtinat, Sara Cwynar, Rineke Dijkstra, Philippe Durand, Sylvie Fleury, Bryce Galloway, Moshtari Hilal, Anne Horel, Sanja Ivekovic, Yuki Kihara, Sandra Lazzarini, Ethel Lilienfeld, Linder, Lucy&Bart, Luna Maurer, James McColl, Ana Mendieta, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Zanele Muholi, Zed Nelson, J.D. ‘Okhai Oijekere, ORLAN, Frida Orupabo, Guillaume Pauli, Andrés Pérez, Cara Phillips, Momo Pixel, Angelo Plessas, Marilou Poncin, Chantal Regnault, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Errol Stanley Sawyer, Cindy Sherman, Marianna Simnett, Sin Wai Kin, Ruofu Sun & Alice Yu, Ryudai Takano, Amélie Testenoire – Lafayette, Maria Tsagkari, Kristina Varaksina, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hannah Wilke, Hank Willis Thomas, Roel Wouters, Garry Winogrand, Aviya Wyse.
Picture Perfect
7 March – 16 August 2026
More information here.
Image credit:
Be Nice To Me (Flatten 04) from Open My Glade (Flatten), 2000, video installation by Pipilotti Rist (video still) © Pipilotti Rist / 2025, SABAM Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4, 5, 8, 10,12,15, 16, 17
