Rénovation de la Bourse, WIELS Project Room
WIELS Contemporary art center, Brussels BE - 15 September - 3 October 2021
‘Rénovation de la Bourse’ focused upon the specific event of the renovation of a metro stop in central Brussels. Paintings of the subterranean, embodied spaces of the metro are countered by 1:1 trompe l’oeil paintings of barrières de chantiers used throughout the streets of Brussels. The installation physically circulated the viewer through a set of visual obstructions and immersions. These localised references extends themselves into broader painterly concepts such as how abstraction and realism, or infrastructure and bodies, compose each other in reciprocity.
Press Release
Photos: Damon de Backer and Sean Crossley
Installalation view (Obstruction, Obstruction, Obstruction)
Installation view (Obstruction, Ouvreur, Obstruction)
Installation view (Obstruction, Ouvreur)
Obstruction, oil on linen, 90 x 220 cm, 2021
Ouvreur, oil on linen, 200 x 160 cm, 2021
Installation view (Obstruction, Obstruction, Circulateur)
Obstruction, oil on linen, 90 x 220 cm, 2021
Circulateur, oil on linen, 210 x 180 cm, 2021
Installation view (Obstruction, Échangeur)
Obstruction, oil on linen, 90 x 220 cm, 2021
Échangeur, oil on linen, 210 x 170 cm, 2021
Installation view (Obstruction)
Obstruction, oil on linen, 90 x 220 cm, 2021
Installation view (Rénovation de la Bourse)
Rénovation de la Bourse, Risograph on paper, 30 x 21 cm, 2021
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