Artists Channel Goya's Black Paintings in Belgian Darkroom Collective

A group of six artists—Canemorto, Servadio, Alberto Brunello, Mik Bòiter, Elie Carp, and Milan Jespers—gathered in a countryside house in Gesves, Belgium, to create a series of silver salt prints using a hybrid process blending photography, printmaking, engraving, and painting. The project, titled 'Que viene el Coco' (a reference to Goya's 1799 aquatint), involved transforming the house into three darkrooms where the artists worked in isolation, evoking Goya's retreat to his villa 'La Quinta del Sordo' where he painted his famous 'Black Paintings.' The resulting images are described as black, ambiguous, instinctive, and deformed, emerging from the darkness of the darkroom. The collective exhibition, 'L'attesa del nero' (The Wait for Black), was held at Galleria Varsi in Rome.