Eight visual artists were invited to produce original works that testify to their vision of the body, physical and social, often fragile and unstable. The exhibition includes bas-reliefs, sculptures, installations, videos, photos and performances. The works each bear witness in their own way to a certain discomfort of the body: unattractive, ghostly, blind, entangled, tampered with...
From the street, Ria Paquée is embedded in the facade, then from the entrance to the Center, Selçuk Mutlu welcomes visitors like a poetic, plastic and conceptual interface. Bas-reliefs and ceramic pots representing grotesque figures of Carlotta Bailly Borg. Bas-reliefs again, by Gaillard & Claude, in strapped synthetic foam, and having hung various objects. Bronze high reliefs by Douglas Eynon, raw self-portraits by blind people. Installation by Sarah Caillard where ghostly characters appear furtively. Conformal copy of a tool for the exploitation of workers' bodies by Olivier Stévenart. In the courtyard, Charlotte Vander Borght installs photographs of empty transport trucks, which suggest that migrant people may have been smuggled there. In this context, a retrospective day of films by the artist and filmmaker, Loïc Vanderstichelen, will be held.
During the lockdown of the end of the year 2020, the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles invites you to discover this online exhibition HERE!
Selçuk Mutlu (Turkey) is in residency at the Cité internationale des arts through a partnership with the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles.