Exhibition: Latent Images, by VicThor and Fabien de Cugnac, Brussels, until 25th October 2026

The exhibition ‘Latent Images’, by VicThor and Fabien de Cugnac, is open at the Passage Gallery, 31 rue de la Concorde, 1050 Brussels, until October 25th 2026.

Friend of the blog Victor Levy has previously written about his incredible personal journey of reclaiming his stereoscopic vision. Through research and experimentation, including with stereoscopy, Victor described his path of gaining a deep understanding of his own vision, and working with it through trial and error to bring about life-changing results, and hoped to reach out to inspire others with his story. Since he wrote the article, Victor has relentlessly continued his journey and progression, and is proud to share with the blog his current exhibition in partnership with Fabien de Cugnac, in Brussels, which explores his journey through his stereoscopic images:

“Images latentes

What do we truly perceive of the world around us? “Images latentes” brings together two artists for whom this question is far from theoretical: each of them experiences, day after day, a singular form of perception. Two atypical ways of seeing, two very different ways of playing with them, with humour.

is far from theoretical: each of them experiences, day after day, a singular form of perception. Two atypical ways ofseeing, two very different ways of playing with them, with humour.

The amblyope lacks the depth perception we take for granted. To get closer to it, he began making images inspired by the exercises of the pioneers of orthoptics. Through these stereoscopic images, shown alternately in two and three dimensions, he breaks down what our brain usually assembles in silence, and reveals how much depth is a construction.

The prosopagnosic has difficulty recognising faces. Do they emerge from the bark of trees? Can you see them? And above all, if you do, are they the same ones? Pareidolia is a deeply personal game: everyone sees in it what their imagination finds there. A latent image both exists and does not exist. It exists because light has left its mark on a sensitive surface; it does not exist because it remains invisible and vanishes the moment we try to look at it. Only development can make it visible.

This is what the two approaches share: to perceive is always to develop, to reveal.

This exhibition at Passage Gallery takes on its full meaning here. We are in the former acl (american color laboratory), where generations of photographers had their films developed. For years, latent images came to light in the laboratory’s chemical baths. Today, the exhibition shows another kind of development, a mental one this time: the process by which our brain brings forth, from what the eye receives, a perception of the world.

The exhibition thus invites each of us to become aware of our own way of perceiving, and of everything that happens between the eye and the world.

Images fusionnelles

A User’s Guide

Brought back from a journey to America, these images reveal themselves in several stages.

At first glance, they intrigue. They seem strange, almost unreal; they appear symmetrical without quite being so: certain elements show up on one side and are missing from the other. This slight offset creates a tension that unsettles the way we read them.

Viewed through a stereoscope, they change in nature. The brain fuses the two halves into a single image, and perception, until then incomplete, becomes three-dimensional. Their meaning shifts: they convey how the scene was seen and captured, and they question the gap between what each of our two eyes sees. From one look to the next, memory comes into play: seeing the flat image is accompanied by the memory of the image in depth. It is in this back-and-forth that the perceptual experience takes shape.

These images also carry a more personal story: step by step, they accompanied an amblyopic eye until it came to take part in perceiving a world in depth. Now it’s your turn to look, to feel your brain combine what each of your eyes perceives, and to immerse yourself in these fusional images.

Victor invites everyone to attend the exhibition, open at the Passage Gallery, 31 rue de la Concorde, 1050 Brussels, until October 25th 2026, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 2pm to 6pm.