Max Pinckers
Water-Based Physical Activity in the South Pacific / Ngerulmud, Palau
The choice of Palau as a focus for the Olympism Made Visible programme was inspired by Judy Otto’s active role in the community and by the award she won as a member of the Palau Women and Sports Commission at the IOC Women and Sport Awards. Judy was awarded the 2017 Trophy for Oceania. As President of the Palau Swimming Association (PSA), Judy Otto has encouraged more of the country’s women to take up the sport, while also strengthening their commitment to health and active living. Her actions focus on sport for all, health and well-being, and the promotion of gender equality in sport.
Working hand in hand with the Palau National Olympic Committee (PNOC), the PSA sees swimming as an essential life skill. The aim of the PSA is to help every Palauan resident to master the essential swimming skills needed to be safe in and around water, and to prepare and send national teams and/or individual representatives to regional and international competitions.
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BIOGRAPHY
Max Pinckers, born in 1988 in Belgium, is an artist based in Brussels. His work explores visual storytelling strategies in documentary photography and the relationship between aesthetics, images and their subjects. His work takes the form of artist’s books and installations such as The Fourth Wall (2012), Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty (2014), Trophy Camera v0.9 (2017) and Margins of Excess (2018). Max Pinckers is currently a doctoral researcher and lecturer in the arts at the School of the Arts / KASK in Ghent, Belgium.
He has won international awards and exhibited at MOCAK in Poland, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United States and the Centre for Fine Arts – BOZAR in Belgium, to name a few. In 2015, he founded the independent publishing house Lyre Press and was listed among the Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Arts.
