It's Gonna Rain

A solo exhibition by Evariste Richer at Meessen De Clercq, Brussels. The show explores political themes alongside optical investigations and existential concerns. It opens with Apocalypse, combining a helicopter blade and a conductor's baton, and includes spiral ink portraits referencing Claude Mellan's 17th-century engraving technique and evoking the writings of Sun Tzu and Hannah Arendt. Further works include Abracadabra, contrasting camouflage fabric with a concealed survival blanket, and L'Or, a gilded human skull. The exhibition culminates in Richer's reinterpretation of Marcel Duchamp's Rotoreliefs (1935), retitled It's Gonna Rain, an immersive installation of concentric optical illusions evoking atmospheric and oceanic vortices.