Louis Gahide





Louis Gahide (°2002) 




Louis Gahide is an audiovisual artist based between Ghent and Brussels, primarily working with film, archival practices, and installation. His practice centers around decontextualisation and recontextualisation of found footage and censorship. He often scratches directly on the pellicule, interrogating the complexities of authorship and appropriation — both of the original footage and of his own creative interventions.


Questioning the term expanded cinema, Louis creates works that inhabit a dual existence within both the black box and the white cube, stating that his own audiovisual works reflect a different notion of reality in the two spaces.


More recently, Louis has been gradually building a personal archive of found-film material. Working with this footage, he takes on the role of archivist of his own works, highlighting the idea that an archive is not static but a living entity that holds a continuous narrative, shifting depending on its time and context. The archive evolves, shaped by its historical context and the environment it is shown in, in a constant narrative transformation. 


This appropriated footage often includes scenes engaging with racial, sexualized and patriarchal power structures reflective of the context and time in which they came to be. By stripping away at the film Louis erases the history and creates space for new interpretations.