Please Look in the Basement

Maarten Inghels (°1988) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet and writer. His work consists of books, videos, actions and installations. His latest novel The Miracle of Belgium (2021) about his experiences with the biggest con man in the world, mixes documentary with fiction to explore themes such as fantasy, vanity, greed and manipulation. He coordinated The Lonely Funeral in Belgium, a social and literary project which provides poets to speak at funerals of those without relatives and friends to attend. An eponymous anthology was published in Dutch (De Bezige Bij), German (Edition Korrespondenzen) and English (Arc Publications). Maarten Inghels’s work explores the friction between the public and the private and the art of disappearing.