MVSC04 / Francesca Torzo poetry Axel Hoedt’s new book NOKI

Axel Hoedt’s new book NOKI is the result of a 10 year long photographic collaboration with JJ Hudson aka Noki—an exploration of masks as representations of otherness

Dries Segers

I used them as the foundation

that is casting a striped shadow onto her body

MVSC04 / Francesca Torzo poetry Axel Hoedt’s new book NOKIIn 2015 The Maarten Van Severen Foundation and the Department of Design of KASK School of Arts Ghent decided to establish a chair with the aim of conveying the relevance and significance of Maarten Van Severens work for todays designers. Every year a leading designer, whose work has an affinity with the work of Maarten Van Severen, will give a lecture and a masterclass. He or she will reflect on the common ground between their work and that of Maarten