The oeuvre of Narcisse Tordoir (b. Mechelen, Belgium) might be described as ‘spatial painting’ that uses a specific dynamic, bold and intriguing visual language, based on reality. Trying out new possibilities, where media and style are mixed in a striking way, the artist constantly challenges himself regarding both, content and technique. The works are stories full of bravado, simultaneously subtle and in your face, weaving romance with harsh reality, history with contemporaneity, moving pictures with static ones, and madness with seriousness. Tordoir practices painting as an act; a performance that continues to resonate. His language is associative, intrusive and mysterious yet with great formal precision. The elements, recognizable in themselves, are combined in a way which creates tension and opens up a semantic field of emotion, disrupting our ordinary ways of seeing and consistently off-footing the viewer. Narcisse Tordoir has represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale. In 1999 together with Luc Tuymans he organized Trouble Spot Painting, a trailblazing show marking the state of painting at the time. Significant solo exhibitions include Fake Barok, Musées des Beaux Arts and Cultuurcentrum Strombeek (Brussel 2018), The Pink Spy, Museum of Modern Art (Antwerp 2014); Are We Changing the World, Extra City (Antwerp 2005); The Way of the World, Cultuurcentrum (Mechelen 2009). Selected group exhibitions include A Story of the Image: Old & New Masters from Antwerp, National Museum of Singapore (Singapore, 2009) and Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai, 2009); Banks Violette – Sophie Ristelhueber – Narcisse Tordoir, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (Deurle, 2009); Dear ICC, Museum of Modern Art (Antwerp, 2005); At years end, rethinking The Family of Man, De Appel (Amsterdam, 2005) and Working Ethics, Krinzinger Projekte (Vienna, 2004). Tordoir lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. His solo exhibition Time Without Future is currently running in Roger Raveel Museum in Belgium.