Vincen Beeckman / Claude & Lilly photography Due to the great simplicity

Due to the great simplicity of both subject and image

Starting from her archive

often there is a lack of words to talk about death

As a series

“The Cabinet of Traces” is a collection of 73 traces that were left behind by various artists in residency at Air Antwerp from 2012 onwards

Vincen Beeckman / Claude & Lilly photography Due to the great simplicityI met Lilly when I was working at the Foire du Midi fair in Brussels, says Claude van Halen of his late partner, Liliane Maes. I met her on the 14th of July 1995. The boss of a bar asked me, Claude do you want to go with her because her man is beating her? I said yes. I even left my job for her. I went with her and and we stayed together for so long, for 23 years. Lilly passed away on 6th June 2018, Claude by her side till the end. The romance between