The title of the exhibition "Cénotaphes" refers to a monument commemorating a dead person but containing no physical remains. Each work is executed with extreme skill and pays homage to some aspect of humanity - mutilated bodies accompanied by delicately transformative motifs; rites and rituals; joyous, painful and vainglorious mysteries of our civilisation.

The artist uses 19th-century photographs as his primary inspiration. These images reflect an era where spirituality and superstition, though dying out, nevertheless continued to coexist with the new world of modernity, rationality and industrialism.

Most of the work in the exhibition - paintings, drawings and engravings - was produced between 2021 and 2023.

Milan Jespers came early to painting. From a tender age, he was already winning prizes for skilfully painting on small figurines and revealing a sharp eye and a love of detail that are both still evident in his work today.

At the age of 23, Milan Jespers graduated from the ESA Saint-Luc, in Brussels, where he was enrolled on the comics programme. His keen interest in history and in the narrative aspects of comic strip remain major influences in his current practice and watercolour gradually became central to his whole way of working.