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Untold Stories, Katarina Serulus, Marjan Sterckx & Javier Gimeno-Martinez, 2025

recommended by Lut Van den Heuvel
Book Bookdesign Exhibition
Untold Stories: Designers Femmes en Belgique/Vrouwelijke Ontwerpers in België/Women Designers in Belgium 1880-1980 is the continuation of the exhibition of the same name, which was held at the Design Museum Brussels until April 13, 2025. For the first time, it brought together the works of over 50 female designers and creators active in Belgium between 1880 and 1980.

Some Faggy Gestures, Henrik Olesen, 2008

recommended by Bart de Baets
Bookdesign Exhibition
"Some Faggy Gestures the book" is better than the art work. The art work displays a large series of wooden panels on which Olesen lays out endless amounts of image clippings of the representation of queer bodies in classical painting, carefully categorized and labeled. We see images of male bodies fighting (very hot), mothers and their sons (very recongnizable), men bathing, butch women, effeminate poses (like hand in hip or staring into a distance). It's a striking work, yet the book is better as it provides a slower way of experiencing the work. Olesen's cut-out typography is charming and endearing. The work contains certain easter eggs, like some stills from a prison-themed porn video or a cute portrait of Queen's late frontman Freddie Mercury.
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