Mini exhibition
Running from August 17 through September 18

myDARKwaters

Laurent Delom

August 17 through September 18Free

Discover how art, music, and technology come together in myDARKwaters, the interactive app accompanying the performance *dark waters*, which can be seen during the Reiefestival. The exhibition takes you behind the scenes of the creative process and shows how the app was developed as a digital guide through the performance. The app thus serves as a contemporary prayer book in which text, images, and music come together to create an intense experience.

Inspired by medieval Black Books of Hours from Bruges and the tradition of opera librettos, myDARKwaters invites visitors to immerse themselves completely in the mysterious world of dark waters. Using their smartphones or a projection on stage, visitors follow the sung lyrics and discover a rich visual universe that continues to resonate long after the performance ends.

Credits

Artwork by Laurent Delom Curator Marie Hartmann Production: wpZimmer A co-production of Brugge Plus (Reiefestival) and the Bruges Public Library

Laurent Delom is a French multidisciplinary artist who has lived and worked in Antwerp since 2013. That year, he graduated from the Royal Conservatory with a bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance. Prior to that, in 2011, he earned a degree in telecommunications engineering in France.

Today, his artistic practice is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary. Choreography, literature, and digital design are key building blocks of his practice-based and academic artistic research, which ultimately gave rise to *dark waters*.

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Marie Hartmann is a German art historian specializing in medieval manuscript culture, materiality, and the biographies of objects in the late Middle Ages in Europe. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin, where she is contributing to the project “Premodern Provenance: Tracing, Telling, and Imagining the Origins of Objects and Materials in the Medieval Mediterranean.”

In 2025, she earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Literary Studies from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation titled “Schwarz vor Augen. Materiality and Mediality of Colored Book of Hours.” In it, she analyzed the material effects of rare black-colored books of hours at the Burgundian court of the late fifteenth century.

During her studies, she received the Deutschlandstipendium and gained experience at the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin, the Goethe-Institut in Toronto, the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art in Paris, and Illuminare at KU Leuven, where she also held a visiting fellowship in 2021.

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