BRUSSELS ANTI-DEMOLITION CAMPAIGN
2013
1/21 oval paintings, 11x14cm and photographs 50x60cm, Rue Joseph Claes, 26, 1000 Brussels, 2013
I started this project when cycling on a street near the Brussels South train station, where most houses were abandoned and fated to an imminent demolition. During one year, I created a series of small oval oil paintings on buildings fated to be destroyed. I thought that if I became a well-known painter before their destruction, maybe they would not be torn down in order to keep the paintings intact.
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J'ai découvert une rue, près de la gare du midi de Bruxelles, dans laquelle la plupart des maisons étaient abandonnées et vouées à une destruction imminente. Je me suis demandée comment ma peinture pouvait empêcher leur démolition. La solution était toute trouvée : j'allais peindre sur ces maisons et devenir une peintre célèbre. Ma renommée empêcherait peut-être leur destruction.
Project is part of the platform ARCHIVE OF DESTRUCTION created by Jes Fernie in collaboration with Flat Time House in London
Map of the paintings to download on the website brusselsantidemolitioncampaign.com
6/21 oval paintings, 11x14cm and photographs 50x60cm
Exhibition view at Galerie 100Titres, 2013 © Dragan Markovic
Exhibition view at Médiatine Competition, Brussels, Second Prize of the COCOF, 2016