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Ferre Leriche (aka Bleper) is an artist who explores the boundary between visual art and comic art. His drawings often take aim at himself and his fellow humans. He focuses on self-introspection, interpersonal contact, and relations between people and their environment.
For the exhibition Nowhere and Back Again, Bleper starts from Willy, a comic character he created ten years ago on the Bijloke arts campus, when he took his first steps towards cartoons, drawing, and being an artist. Willy was a parody of the “true Fleming,” an ideological concept in which the then art student saw an enemy.
During the preparations for the show at KIOSK, Bleper, now richer in experience, discovered that his bond with Willy, the caricatured Fleming, had changed. His original ideological approach needed revision: years of working in the social sector, special youth care, a...More
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Nowhere and Back Again
KIOSK•Sep 14, 2024 — Nov 10, 2024
Press release
Ferre Leriche (aka Bleper) is an artist who explores the boundary between visual art and comic art. His drawings often take aim at himself and his fellow humans. He focuses on self-introspection, interpersonal contact, and relations between people and their environment.
For the exhibition Nowhere and Back Again, Bleper starts from Willy, a comic character he created ten years ago on the Bijloke arts campus, when he took his first steps towards cartoons, drawing, and being an artist. Willy was a parody of the “true Fleming,” an ideological concept in which the then art student saw an enemy.
During the preparations for the show at KIOSK, Bleper, now richer in experience, discovered that his bond with Willy, the caricatured Fleming, had changed. His original ideological approach needed revision: years of working in the social sector, special youth care, a...More