Michaël Borremans. As sweet as it gets @ BOZAR

Michaël Borremans made his international breakthrough in the late 1990s with a varied body of work (including drawings, paintings, and films) that laid bare the deceptive nature of representation and the absurdity of existence in a suggestive, ironic way.

Borremans has been known to make personal references to historic paintings by, among others, Velázquez, Goya, and Manet and also frequently alludes to literature, photography, and film.

His focus on the power of the imagination makes his subversive visual idioms especially engaging.