Vincent Meessen

Vincent Meessen (b. 1971, Baltimore, USA; lives in Brussels) is an artist, filmmaker, curator and researcher whose transdisciplinary practice reorients narration around colonial histories and multiple gazes. A founding member of collectives like Universal Embassy and Jubilee, he represented Belgium at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 with Personne et les autres. His work, including films such as Juste un mouvement, uses archival gestures, institutional critique and polyphonic strategies to destabilise fixed historiographies and foreground collective subjectivities.

Juste un mouvement by Vincent Meessen revisits Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise through the story of Omar Blondin Diop, blending essay, biography, and political cinema into a layered recontextualization.

Vincent Meessen
Belgium, France 2021 108' leff 2025