Stephane Goldrach & Jonathan Poliart
dal 22/12/2010 al 5/2/2011
Segnalato da
22/12/2010
Stephane Goldrach & Jonathan Poliart
Faux-bourg, Bruxelles
For "Speedy Wash #12" the artists question the exhibition space by integrating into their work the cafe "Le Faubourg" located next to it. In the window, the painting of a door suggests an opening to an area still unknown and inaccessible. A relationship between the visible and invisible parts, between living and non-living spaces.
Stéphane Goldrach and Jonathan Poliart question the exhibition space by integrating into their work the cafe "Le Faubourg" located next to it. By appropriating the architectural lines of the café, they explore the capacity for emptiness and fullness of the exhibition space.
Speedy Wash appears like a "suburb" ("faubourg" in French) in the etymological sense of the word: an off-site or a place outside the place which indirectly plays with the representation of boundaries, borders, openings, closure and access, whether real, imaginary or symbolic.
In the window, the painting of a door suggests an opening to an area still unknown and inaccessible. A relationship between the visible and invisible parts, between living and non-living spaces.
Through a door in a window that leads nowhere, they also bring us to the cafe next door, to meet the locals. The café will host photos of the opening event, traces, ghosts, imaginary bridges between these two spaces, that question more fundamentally the act of existing.
Whether a person or a place, isn't it foremost in the eyes of the others that we exist and isn't it this the extraordinary power of the gaze that finds here its metaphor in this window transformed into an exhibition space.
Various actions have been implemented to establish Wiels as a real discovery place open to everyone, and more specifically for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood who are invited to actively participate in the Wiels Project.
Speedy wash: an abandoned launderette from the sixties located on the Saint-Denis Square in the heart of Forest has been turned into a public exhibition space
Angie Vandycke
Press & communication
+32 (0)2 3400051 +32 (0)4 86680070 angie.vandycke@wiels.org
Opening 23 december 6pm
Faux-bourg
Place Saint-Denis 1190 Forest Bruxelles - Brussel