Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker et Steven Fillet

Belle-Île was created in 2024 through a collaboration between choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and painter Steven Fillet, two artists with a profound connection to nature. They spent the autumn on Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they worked outdoors on a vast five-by-twenty-metre canvas, poised on a cliff above the raging sea. Wind and storm—motifs already present in earlier performances such as Forêt (2022), Exit Above (2023), and Il Cimento (2024)—quite literally sweep through the work. Light, water, and air permeate a network of lines that is at once abstract and subtly figurative, like a play of shadows recalling the earliest cave paintings. For this exhibition, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has created a new solo piece entitled Amnesia, inspired by Beethoven’s final piano sonata (Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111), a work that, like the music itself, hovers at the edge of the abyss.