Sid Dankers (BE)
26-28 nov 2026
I gotta be me me brings together several video works produced over the past year and installed in situ throughout the different spaces of Atelier Arthur Rogiers.
These works approach cinema with wide-eyed wonder, as if encountering a beautiful yet unreachable species, circling impatiently around its tropes and stylistic devices.
Through a concentrated yet playful (re)use of archetypes, props and recurring performers, narratives begin to take shape. These unfolds in a series of performative encounters in which actors talk alongside one another rather than to each other, inhabiting familiar worlds that belong to no one in particular and yet are ours.
Sid Dankers (b. 1998, Belgium) explores the performative state: the de facto condition of the body under public exposure, through video, installation, performance and scenography. By means of staged alienation, this performative state is illuminated and exposed, blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction.
Self-constructed sets, environments and backgrounds form the framework in which scenes can emerge. Inhabited worlds can range from hellfires built of plastic flames to childhood toy castles and deserted grey office buildings. Drawing on iconography and archetypes, and by consciously deploying and highlighting them, their reading is opened up for reinterpretation.
In an often interdisciplinary and collective process, ‘entering the stage’ is made explicit by the fact that performers are not sovereign demigods but reveal the fragile and deeply human through hesitation, awkwardness and immaturity.
Sid Dankers lives and works in Brussels and obtained his Master in fine arts at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels.