Love that Moves the Sun (exhibition)

A love song as a space. Something grand and majestic and tender.
A film to walk in. A forest and a continuous dawn.

With her new film installation Love that Moves the Sun, Anouk De Clercq leads us into a vast forest landscape. Inspired by personal experiences in nature and forests at night, she creates a world where darkness unfolds in many shades. It is a haunted but wondrous place: stars drift slowly, meteor showers blaze across the sky, fireflies dance, and animals gather to sing up the sun.

The forest becomes both witness and protagonist, observing all that passes through it while telling its own story. It speaks in its own tones: the rich, layered soundscape, composed by Vessel and Rakhi Singh, draws a clear contrast between the intimate sounds of the forest and something more distant, emerging from beyond. Holding both beauty and unease, the work is a meditation on a world without us — an animated panorama in which light, time and nature are given space to thrive. The camera and the sun move in synchrony, tracing a cyclical rhythm that evokes an eternal order – larger than ourselves, yet reassuring in its repetition.

At the heart of this work lies an invisible force, an energy that propels everything forward, even the sun itself. It is a poem of hope: immersive, intoxicating, and alive with the sense that everything remains in motion. Love that Moves the Sun is an invitation to find a home within that movement.
 
 
Works in the exhibition
Anouk De Clercq – Love that Moves the Sun
2026, single channel, full HD, 16:9, colour, stereo, 21’
Animation by Thomas De Brabanter / Music by Vessel and Rakhi Singh / Produced by Auguste Orts / With the support of Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, STUK, The state 51 Conspiracy

Anouk De Clercq – Love that Moves the Sun (the flame that feels the sun)
2026, single channel, full HD, 16:9 colour, stereo, 7’
Animation by Thomas De Brabanter / Music by Vessel / Produced by Auguste Orts / With the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschap

Anouk De Clercq – Love that Moves the Sun (the words that make a world)
2026, single channel, full HD, 16:9 colour, stereo, 3’
Typography by Michaël Bussaer / Animation by Thomas De Brabanter / Produced by Auguste Orts / With the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschap