Line Pillet is a Belgian filmmaker. In January 2020, she was selected by Cité des arts Internationale Paris for a writing residency where she wrote the script of the short film Window that she finished in February 2023. Currently she is working on a new fiction film to evoke a dialogue with politicians and policymakers following the 2024 elections. The film advocates employment opportunities for sans-papiers in bottleneck occupations. Her films are marked by their intuitive character and strong images. Her work explores space and people in relation to each other and nature. The particular characters create their own universe. The central theme of her films is oppression in all its forms and the impossibility of going against our nature.

More about her: pilletline.com

Alfa

At Hektor, I would like to write the first episode of my miniseries Alfa. The drama series is about a villa neighborhood on the edge of a nature reserve. When a wolf pack shows up, conflict arises among the neighborhood residents. The focus of the series is on atypical family structures. Both families are single-parent families relying on a single mother figure. A few years ago, I got the idea to create a story about wolves in Belgium. It provides an interesting vehicle to talk about relevant themes such as nature policy, migration and social exclusion. 

Hilde Bouchez, PhD teaches and researches within the field of applied arts, design & architecture, with a focus on responsibility and awareness, and a direct link with ways of storytelling as generators of meaning.

In the past she was head of the Design Departement of KASK & Conservatorium (Ghent), design manager for Proud Europe, a co-design platform, and initiator of the FabLab and Innovation Hub Buda (Kortrijk), involved in a research group On continuity and identity (KULeuven), looking into the power of ancestral knowledge in rural area’s in Nepal, Greenland, Egypt and Congo. She founded and was editor in chief of the magazines BEople and A Magazine.  She has been curating several international exhibitions (MARTa Herford, Design Miami, Design museum Gent, Broelmuseum Kortrijk). 

In 2017 she published A Wild Thing. Essays on things, nearness and love, APE. With this widely acclaimed collection of philosophical essays she is one of the voices of the ‘ontological turn’: looking into a new understanding of the relationship between the human and the non-human. Proposing ways in giving agency to the man-made and thus questioning the role and perception of everyday objects in transitional times. 

Throughout her career she has been on a quest for meaning, in different corners, layers and attitudes. For twenty years she has been a tantric practitioner of ancient paths. As a wayfinder she has been gathering a collection of often oppositional experiences, thoughts and things, which she recently assembles in her artistic practice, in an aim to bridge the visible and the invisible.

Discover Maarten Denaeyer’s in situ works on Lanzarote here.

The abstract graphic works of Maarten De Naeyer (born 1992 in Leuven, lives and works in Leuven, Belgium) are the result of a constant experimentation with shapes and textures. After obtaining his masters degree in Graphic Design in 2015, Maarten developed his own unique way of working by experimenting in his studio.

Purified form tension through geometric and organic shapes that interact in an environment of varying textures are the common thread throughout the work. Another very characteristic fact is the almost exclusive use of black and white, this in turn preserving the purity of shapes and allowing the negative white space to enter into a dialogue with the composition.

The mountain is, with/in, you.

Visual & material research.

Representation and interpretation of internal competitions. About the generational performance pressure, 'goals' and social performative deadlines and limiting beliefs adopted during adolescency.

Small scale of a human life & life's relativity when surrounded by nature.

Asesinato en la colina

This series of sculptures in natural, unbaked clay, study how this material will persist in Lanzarote’s often brutal weather conditions wind, sunshine - and some rare rain. On almost every level of our land a fierce warrior has been put, ready to take on the battle with nature. Some are already beheaded, some are standing strong. When planning a visit, you might want to look out for them.

Truls also added some works to the permanent collection.

Truls Mårtensson (b, 1993) works with ceramics to transform the societal consumer culture in to his pieces, where his references to historical pop-art does not go unnoticed. The critique of a digitalized and capitalistic society in relation to his medium creates a unavoidable clash between worlds. 

For his project at Hektor Truls will explore the possibilities of marrying his own aesthetic with that of the specific location of the residency. He wants to see how he can progress in a new context - maybe with a material he is familiar with, clay, or other mediums. Furthermore he simply wants inspiration and stay at a place has not seen before. His practice has been very fast paced and urban centered and he wants to see what happens to it when you try to do the opposite in a more calm atmosphere. Moreover he intends to write and lay out future projects when at Hektor.