Ruiskamer: ssaliva invites
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Wed 09.1219:30 - 22:30Miry Concertzaal, Gent
Tickets Pay What You Can - Basic € 14,00 Pay What You Can - Standard € 17,00 Pay What You Can - Support € 20,00
About ssaliva
François Boulanger is an audiovisual artist born in Liège, Belgium in 1983. He started producing music and photography/collages by the end of the 90’s/early 2000.
In 2011, he started his experimental project « ssaliva ». After working for years as Cupp Cave on alternative hip-hop and dance beats, he developed hypnotic soundscapes based on sparse rhythms, lush tones and crystallised textures. A personal and romantic rendition of a life amidst nature and city pollution.
His work as ssaliva also consists of documenting equally ethereal and removed places in pictures, two compulsive and lonely processes that have made him accumulate thousands of strange, escapist mental landscapes. Sometimes ghostly, sometimes sacred, an instantly recognizable form of melancholia.
About 0comeups
0comeups' work has been described as epic collage: expansive, densely layered compositions suspended somewhere between sound art and memory. His music inhabits an emotional space that feels almost holy, evoking nostalgia and solitude, shaped by grey skies and tower blocks, fields and woodlands, isolation and melancholy. Songs unfold as shifting landscapes, revealing new details with every encounter as unrest gives way to moments of elevated repose.
About VISIO
VISIO is the alias of London-based musician and visual artist Nicola Tirabasso. Working across sound, moving image and visual composition, his practice investigates the arcane boundaries between reality and the inexplicable. Drawing from fictional imaginaries, folk symbolism, internet mythologies and antiquarian visual culture, he constructs fragmented worlds where deliberate anachronism and inauthenticity become tools to question memory, authenticity and contemporary narratives.
Since becoming an integral part of the Macao collective in Milan, Tirabasso has played an active role in independent cultural production, later founding the London-based initiatives Nocturnal Reflections and Club Mutante. Over the years he has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning live performance, installation, film and graphic design, collaborating with artists including ssaliva, Heith, Penny Rimbaud, Rustan Söderling and Günseli Yalcinkaya.
In 2022, VISIO released his debut LP Privacy Angels via Haunter Records, an album exploring mythological narratives, digital spirituality and fractured memory through experimental song structures and immersive sound design. In 2024 he presented the solo exhibition Fools Circel 9wys in Milan, curated by Threes and featuring the participation of Penny Rimbaud. In 2026 he released Trickstar, a collaborative audiovisual work with ssaliva, accompanied by a video by Noel Oplinger.
His work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, screenings and performances at venues and institutions including the ICA, South London Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, Lafayette Anticipations, Swiss Institute, Club To Club, Cripta747, Spazio Maiocchi, Fondazione Elpis and Neo Shibuya. In 2025 he joined the roster of SHAPE+ Platform.
Alongside his artistic practice, Tirabasso develops publications, visual identities and collaborative projects for artists, labels and cultural institutions including AD93, 4AD, PAN, Halcyon Veil, Editions Mego, Centre Pompidou, Empty Gallery, Pitchfork, Versace, LOST Festival, VTSS and Slam Jam.