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Gus Møystad: Ex nihilo nihil fit

By Gus Møystad, translated by Laura Vroomen
2 December 2022 1 min. reading time Calm Before the Storm

Eighteen young writers from Flanders and the Netherlands have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. They wrote their stories in response to the question: what do you see when you look at these objects through the lens of impending doom?
Gus Møystad drew a graphic story inspired by Jozef Israëls’ painting The Sand Bargeman.
‘I can all but set my clock by his daily routine.’

800px Jozef Israëls De zandschipper Jozef Israëls, The Sand Bargeman, 1887
© Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam

Ex nihilo nihil fit

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Gus Møystad

Gus Møystad (b. 1992) works in Amsterdam as an artist, writer and storyteller. He is a chaotic mishmash of identities and feelings, which never quite settled after a childhood in Beirut, an international school in Oslo, roots in Maastricht and family in Brussels. This mishmash is expressed through the finest mishmash medium of all time: comic strips. He is interested in and inspired by politics, history, fantasy, utopia, bodies and identity.

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