For the dreamers, the lovers of the city, those who lack color in the urban greyness, for you,
for your neighbor, for the stranger who passes by, Lise Bruyneel and I have imagined Échappées belles bxl.
They are sails above your eyes, under/in the sky of Saint-Gilles this summer. Floating in the wind, soaked by the rain or illuminated by the sun, they mix artistic disciplines and eras
around the theme of water. Water has dug the history of Saint-Gilles, but is no longer visible. The springs, the Elsbeek, the fountains and fish ponds, the water was everywhere, but today it is today buried, sent to
the sewer.
Here it comes back, ephemeral, suspended between trees or facades, transfigured by a selection of artists as powerful as the waves. A core of contemporary photography, but with
escapes to other centuries and other disciplines: painting, engraving, drawing, comics, digital arts or secret techniques related to water and light. Explosive, narrative, calm, militant,
gushing, mysterious, poetic, documentary, dreamy, water reveals itself under a thousand facets, in search of your glance. Let yourself be carried away, look up....
AUG-SEPT 2021 - in the streets of St-gilles
WITH
ALBARRÁN CABRERA · ANNA ATKINS · CHAD MOORE · CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW · CLAUDE MONET · DRIES SEGERS · ENRIC MONTES · FLORENCE CATS · HANS DEFER · JACQUES ANDROUET DU CERCEAU · JULIE CALBERT · JULIE VAN DER VAART · KATRIN KOENNING · LEO DIVENDAL · LÉON SPILLIAERT · LEONID DANILOV · LÉONIE BISCHOFF · LISANDRO SURIEL · MARTIN GALLONE · MASAHISA FUKASE · MATHIEU VAN ASSCHE · MATTHIEU LITT · MEGHANN RIEPENHOFF · OLYMPE TITS · POLIXENI PAPAPETROU · SASCHA WEIDNER · SJOERD KNIBBELER · STÉPHANIE ROLAND
JAN-FEB 2022 - At Pianofabriek
MAR 21-SEPT22 - In three elementary school in Saint-Gilles
