"I've always wanted to do reportage, but my work is a reaction to the media treatment of current events ; I offer an ironic counterweight. So strictly speaking, these are not really history paintings, even if the large format, the composition, and the choice of subject all allude to that genre. In this way, I do not necessarily photograph the event itself nor the well-known person in it ; I simply choose a symbolic image, an image behind the mirror of the spectacle. " Carl de Keyzer.