On the opening day of ‘Brutal realities’ in @aaimachine every artist present wore, on their back, a temporary tattoo depicting their own phone showing a screenshot they themselves had taken, All together forming a flattened mosaic of our collective doomscroll: cooking tutorials, murdered bodies, Al generated sludge, algorithmic dead space … A timeline sliding from brutal reality to brutal banality.
Feel welcome to read a reflection about the work on my website.
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Putting it on our backs then is a gesture of recognizing the expansion of what body is, and locating it. This is body now, my phone sinking through my chest, its material being metabolized to then blend with the scars or genetically determined marks that were already there on my back.
Made and written with @doub.ll
Principles
Opening 11.12.2025, 18:00
An exhibition with @jacobl.cht en @doub.ll in dialogue with @maartje.claes
Opening: 11.12.2025, 18:00
Exhibition: 11.12—21.12.25
Open Friday-Sunday between 2pm and 6pm or by appointment.
Address: Maison Liu-de Biolley, Rue Le Lorrain 60, 1080 Molenbeek
Supported by: Stichting Velge and Jehanne de Biolley
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A principle is a supposed fundamental truth, rule or belief — something that could possibly prompt a
chain of reasoning, or govern one’s behaviour. In Principles Lennert Lefever and Jacob Lambrecht, in
dialogue with Maartje Claes, comb through personal props and vanishing points, staging a dialogue
between a painter and a mouse. The painter’s principles imitate the language of commandments,
axioms or scientific laws, revealing how flimsy, theatrical and imaginative our systems of truth can be.
The mouse sets the camera, turns around and exits the scene. The situation that grows between the two
of them contains proposals for how a world might be understood. A sliver of pop meets moving
images. See: you hear a familiar melody, slightly mystical, then that boomerang-like return, an antimonument, an apple? For both the painter and the mouse, attention requires a stepping back from the self. Jacob Lambrecht, Lennert Lefever and Maartje Claes want to engage with the world as they find it; taking all the material mess of the present seriously
Sound On!
A selection of blog posts from the last 6months.
1. song: Burial - near dark
animation from music video ‘Kocham wolność’
2. Music heard and performed on the event ‘Bad Movies for Bad People—an unholy art exhibit by Khavn featuring Babel Gun, where punk cinema meets deranged beauty in glorious trash.’
3. Love fionnualla
4. Song - Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
5. music from the show: Coming of age, Age of coming, Of coming age. By Matt Copson
6. song is OSCAR CARABALLO - Luz De Luna (1991) (I think) from the NTS mix : Luis Alvarado: VENEZUELA SINTÉTICA CÓSMICA (1984-1993)
7. A melody that appeared to me in a state of half-conciousness.
8. Raymond van het groenewoud - Jarig
9. Palestinian boy singing from the documentrary ‘children nevertheless’ 1979 directed by Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali
10. Outro from Unnecessary Begging - Fela Kuti
ACTIVITY ANNOUNCEMENT!
A history (tribute)
With @airberlinalexanderplatz
24/08/2025 15h - Friedrichstrasse 23A (BERLIN)
I, Jacob, warmly invite you for an informal screening/workshop/hangout. After months of work and research there is a lot to share and a lot of questions to ask. I would be very happy to do this with you, that is why I engaged in this research after all :-). It does not matter whether you already know what I was working on or not, it will be interesting. Please try to be on time.
Loose structure
We will start with some drinks, conversation and the screening of a video-work in progress.
Then some discussion about the video.
Then a short break.
Then we will interact with an experimental archive website that was developed during the residency.
Then conversation, questions, critique,..........
There is no strict end time, we will try not to draw it out too long. Try to be on time please.
Everybody is free to come and go as they wish ofcourse.
Food will be provided if we become hungry.
Hope to see you there :-).
Selection of pictures from the shoot two months ago. Thank you FOREVER to @franekmichon and @thespacecaveman for making them.
These pieces of clothing are an attempt to make something that is cool, something that people keep close, something that is a product, and something i can do without studio space. The first one (that is not here) appeared to me in a dream in October. Thank you to everyone who modelled, bought something or showed appreciation. ❤️❤️
1. Malou Moy
2. Franek Michon @franekmichon
3. Shino Matsuura @shinomatsuura
4. Simon Coops @focksimon
5. Tosia Chomik @tosia.chomik
6. Djoa Best @djoabest
7. Inès @inesm1randa
8. Emma Rose @lllll.llll.lll.ll
9. Kick Hoogewerf @kickhoogewerf
10. Mia Ferreira @thespacecaveman
Tune in tomorrow for a day of SPECIALS ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗
Join us from 12:40 to 22:00 and listen to:
★ Nies w/ Secrets
★ @sofia.underground w/ Blugarian Sounds From Now
★ @niki_gata w/ Safe Space
★ @1amkovac w/ Ljubljana Zagreb Beograd - NONSTOP
★ @magorronea w/ Sounds of the Revolution
★ @jacobl.cht w/ Il repond ?
★ @fionnuala.bd w/ Noise altar
★ @edities_marreyt w/ Langs de wegen
A collection of more freejacob.com blog activities over the past half year. 2025 is promising to be EPIC. Thank you to all my friends and all the people in the world. Also thank you for all the beautiful music that exists❤️🌅💯❤️🔥❤️
1. BLADEANGEL - by @loladendunnen_autonoom 😩
2. music by Andile Yenana. Dance by ‘Vusi’, animation from ‘mind game’ by Masaaki Yuasa
3. Rx Papi - Still in da hood
4. Mazzy star - fade into you cover
5. Song:The Great Hen-Yuan’ River - Cukor Bila Smert’
6. People over a 100. Song: Pinta Manta - Antonia Sanches
7. Video from last year. So g: No no no - dawn penn
8. Found videos on youtube
9. An unlikely collaboration between Mark Van hoek, Flore Sparrentak and the instagram algorithm
10. Video made by colleauge on the job. Song: Pot pourri, No. 2 - Roger Colas
Jan Jambon stomach examination (whats inside??)
A deepfaked video of me getting a stomach examination while wearing the face of minister of culture @janjambon .
The around thirty nylon masks that were accompanying the video were allowed to be worn all over the exhibition. The video and masks are one in the question; whats inside? A question both literal and figurative.
Presented in the dining hall of @lamaisondesarts1030 for @artcontestasbl
Would not have been possible without the help of @a_malicious_menace ❤️.
Also thank you to the jury for my first ever prize ‼️
To see / read more about this work visit
Pt2 from the summer school in Valga at @vares.space with @kunstiryhmitus . Was so much fun. ❤️🔥 thank you to ALL!!!! Also thank you to @margus_tammik for the pictures.
During one of our walks trough the city we found this anonymous, forgotten space between two buildings. Upon considering it, the idea of planting a bone between the buildings took a hold of my mind. That same day I started sculpting a femur bone from birch wood. It would take approximately 7 hours to finish. Someone said that I (my body with all its muscles bones and tendons) had become a Lynchean agent of this bone that had to be there. I think it is a great description.
The title; ‘I WAS HERE?’ is a grafitti we encountered on one of the walks. For the title I added a questionmark. The work was presented together with that of @elenpichkhadze . To read more about this presentation read on
From the summer school in Valga at @vares.space with @kunstiryhmitus . Was so much fun. ❤️🔥 thank you to ALL!!!! Also Timur, our small friend.
‘Valga igavese sõpruse kivi’ (Valga friendship forever rock) was christened as a cultural monument on 23rd of August 2024. The event was open to the public and the whole of Valga’s city council was invited but nobody came except one passerby who stopped to listen. I gave a public speech with an Estonian translator (thank you @metzalaura ). As to not give a single person the honor of cutting the red ribbon, we brought a lot of them to be cut by everyone present.
For more info about why we did this and about the context of this mysterious work is please visit freejacob.com
Friendship forever!!!!!
