About Laure specializes in curatorial projects, advising cultural institutions on partnerships as well as the organization of art related events. With a commercial and institutional background, she has a broad network in the cultural field.
Laure Decock (Kortrijk, 1990) is an independent curator and creative consultant. She studied history of Art at Ghent University and has worked in a commercial position at several contemporary art galleries such as Almine Rech Gallery, Albert Baronian, Axel Vervoordt and Meessen Declercq. With a group of fellow students she founded the S.M.A.K. young friends. She has worked on partnerships and events at WIELS. Laure was a founding member of ELDERS Collectiefand cultural advisor to the Dutch embassy in Belgium.
Together with Evelyn Simons she founded RendezVous - Brussels Art Week,a new organisation celebrating the richness and variety of the contemporary Brussels art scene. This annual event takes place mid-September, and unites the city’s many contemporary art galleries to collectively celebrate the kick-off of the artistic season.
LE / 1957
From The Immense Journey
A billion years have gone into the making of that eye; the water and the salt and the vapors of the sun have built it; things that squirmed in the tide silts have devised it. Light-year beyond light-year, deep beyond deep, the mind may rove by means of it, hanging above the bottomless and surveying impartially the state of matter in the white-dwarf suns.
Yet whenever I see a frog’s eye low in the water warily ogling the shoreward landscape, I always think inconsequentially of those twiddling mechanical eyes that mankind manipulates nightly from a thousand observatories. Someday, with a telescopic lens an acre in extent, we are going to see something not to out liking, some looming shape outside there across the great pond of space.
Whenever I catch a frog’s eye I am aware of this, but I do not find it depressing. I stand quite still and try hard not to move or lift a hand since it would only frighten him. And standing thus it finally comes to me that this is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely magnificent power of humanity. It is, far more than any spatial adventure, the supreme epitome of the reaching out.
