Brahim Tall’s M-Residency

M offers Brahim Tall a five-month residency at Cas-co. Brahim Tall’s artistic practice, spanning film, photography, performance, and installation, explores the various facets of identity and the relationship between image and body.

M-resident Brahim Tall — Portrait Brahim Tall, photo: Tim Evers

Brahim Tall (b. 1993, Leuven) lives and works in Brussels. In 2022, he obtained a master’s degree in visual arts from Luca School of Arts. His work has previously been presented at various venues including KAAP (Ostend), the Beurschouwburg (Brussels) and international film festivals. He has participated in various group exhibitions in, among others, Fomu (Antwerp), Contour Biennial (Mechelen), Netwerk Aalst, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (Amsterdam) and Marres (Maastricht). Tall won the VAF Wildcard in 2022 with his short film ‘Tukuleur’.

His work tackles themes such as the representation of the Black body, the tension between individual and collective identities, and the role of images in (de)colonization. Growing up in a bicultural environment with Senegalese, Dutch, and Belgian roots, Tall draws on his personal experiences to challenge and scrutinize societal and cultural conventions.

Work of M-resident Brahim Tall — ‘Ancestry, Posterity, Manhood, Brotherhood performance’, Brahim Tall, 2021, 3m Brussel, photo: Anna Izquierdo

His previous projects include an ongoing photographic exploration of club culture, a performance celebrating the African tradition of hair braiding, and the short film 'Tukuleur', in which a character navigates their place within Western society and public space.

During his M-residency, Tall will work on transforming his photographic, cinematic, and performative creations into installations. He will also explore the physical effects of musical vibrations on the body.