F.E.A.R

Shame Gallery, Brussels

Pop-up Group exhibition

July 4th, 2025 - 6-9pm

See you Friday 4th July, 6pm, for surprise performances + Shamepain cocktails!

F.E.A.R. — False Evidence Appearing Real

Fear doesn’t just haunt us—it shapes us. It governs our bodies, censors our desires, and infects our creative instincts. F.E.A.R. is an exhibition about the quiet, gnawing anxieties we carry: the fear of ageing out of relevance, of viral transmission and bodily vulnerability, of being too much, or not enough. The fear of making art that falls flat. Of never being seen.

This show confronts the internalised and institutional fears that stalk the queer body, the sexual body, the deviant body. Fear of rejection, of illness, of being dismissed by a society that only tolerates what it can tame. Here, artists don’t flinch—they dissect. They turn dread into material.

Featuring works by @isabella_theys , @leoniestolberg_official , @aurel_quiros_miramontes , @natan.french and @pachebrussels , the exhibition spans sculpture, painting, photography, and installation. From the lingering specter of sexual shame to the terrifying ambition to create something that matters, F.E.A.R. holds nothing back. These are personal exorcisms—intimate, confrontational, unapologetically honest.

In a culture obsessed with control, this exhibition dares to unravel. To get messy. To speak what’s usually swallowed. And somewhere in the raw exposure of it all, something resilient takes root.

Fear becomes form. Shame becomes the story. Vulnerability becomes resistance.