Solo exhibition Tu te souviens ? (Do You Remember?),
Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels, 2014.
Site-specific installation in a former mansion — built in 1826, landmarked and converted into an art center — on the theme of remembrance of forgotten wars and conflicts.
Foreign Import
Installation in the dinning room.
Glass case, cups and plates from divers origins, coffee, cacao, coal, and other minerals.
A strange tea time, set around a mythic cup (under the glass case) that witnessed the birth of Belgium in 1830, recalls that this country's wealth was based on intensive exploitation of its own natural resources — thanks to the workforce imported from many countries — as well as of the natural resources of its colonies — in a very violent way. The following text was posted on one of the dinning room's walls: Foreign Import.
Collateral Damages
Installation in the pink lounge.
The pink lounge's piano and chandelier, bundled against possible bombings, suggest the possibility of a local war, while the precious wall-coverings in fuchsia silk are decorated with a frieze of corpses drawn at eye level.
Unstable World
Installation in the beige lounge.
Like a mountain range, a 9-meter accordion-shaped book is spread across the room. One can discover a succession of press photographs related to all kinds of violence and highlighted with red pencil. The book is part of Entitled, a case that holds 6 different titles with an identical content.
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Amnesia
Installation in the library.
Large screen, table, seats, lamps and books.
Video amnesia — 52 mn, subtitled in English — displayed on a large screen (3 m width).
In twelve sequences and twelve languages, amnesia pays tribute to the poets and writers who preserve the memory of what some are trying to forget or even deny. A reading corner offers to the visitors the opportunity to discover the authors' books that are read in the video.
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Installation Foreign Import in the dinning room.
Installation Foreign Import.
Installation Foreign Import.
Installation Foreign Import,
portraits of cups.
Installation Collateral Damages in the pink lounge.
Installation Collateral Damages.
Installation Collateral Damages.
“Force (...) transforms a man into a thing in the most literal sense,
as it transforms it into a corpse.
There was someone, and, a moment later, there is no one.”
Simone Weil, The Iliad or the Poem of Force, 1941.
Installation Collateral Damages.
Installation Unstable World in the beige lounge.
Installation Unstable World.
This project met Thucydides' path, a Greek politician and historian
(460–397 BC), from whom this quote can be found on every book's cover:
“By wanting to justify acts considered up to there as blameworthy,
we changed the ordinary sense of the words.”
Beige lounge.
Showcase table presenting
the bookcase Entitled.
Installation in the library.
Installation in the library.
Video amnesia
Installation in the library.
Video amnesia
Reading-corner in the library.
Most of the books are from the writers
presented in the video.