James Lee Byars: The Perfect Kiss is the first retrospective exhibition by James Lee Byars in Belgium and simultaneously also a tribute to Byars as a European artist, a Belgian artist, even an Antwerp artist. Byars traveled for ten years between New York and Kyoto before arriving in Europe in 1969, invited for an exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery. He quickly became part of a group of artists and art lovers around this groundbreaking gallery, and became a prominent figure in the European art scene with participations in five documenta's from 1972 until his death.