"There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."

 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine 

Luc Tuymans

(c)image: M HKA
The Valley , 2012
Print , 71 x 72.5 cm
screenprint on paper

Aquisition on behalf of the Flemish Comunity. Screenprint in 7 colours on BKF Rives 300g/m² paper. Published by Graphic Matter, Antwerp. Printed by Roger Vandaele at Tubbax, Antwerp. Signed in pencil on reverse lower right. Edition of 75 signed and numbered in Arabic numerals. 10 AP.

This screenprint is part of a series on the power of the jesuits: Les Revenants. This ambiguous portrait of a young boy is based on a still from the film "The Village of the Damned" (an American sciencefiction/horror movie about children that are evil).