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7/9/2009

Speedy Wash #4

Former launderette, Bruxelles

In the former launderette on the Saint-Denis Square, Charlotte Marchand & Frederic Penelle present an installation entitled Sweet Memories which invites us to revive the exultation, sometimes cruel, of our own childhood.

A window for the emerging creation
The project originates from the collaboration between Wiels and the non-profit association Atrium, in charge of the development of the commercial district on the St-Denis square. While Wiels presents and promotes the contemporary creation, Atrium contributes to the dynamic development of commercial neighborhoods in Brussels. Together, they decided to give a second life to Speedy Wash: an abandonned launderette from the sixties located on the Saint-Denis Square in the heart of Forest has been turned into a public exhibition space...

Speedy Wash is appropriated by two artists simultaneously. The first space allows the presentation of an installation, while the other side invites bidimensional works (painting, collage drawing…). The objective is to confront two different interventions which dialog and answer each other. The two artists decide themselves to work together and express the affinities between their respective practices. The board, visible from the far end of the square, attracts passersby. When approaching, they discover the installation in the space next door and they are invited to imagine the relationships between the two artworks.

In parallel, Belgian artist Filip van Dingenen has created a little sculpture that represents the old logo of the launderette: a strange figurine with lifted arms. At each opening, this sculpture is being handed over to the shopkeepers in the area, who are asked to house the sculpture in their shop window until the next exhibition. The neighbors recognise the sculpture in the different stores they go shopping The journey of this 'mascot' is an opportunity to intrigue passersby and invite shopkeepers to participate to the project. The mascot thus plays a connecting role between the small businesses, the inhabitants and the art world.

Schedule (see agenda):
10/04 - 10/05: Jean-Baptiste Bernadet & Martin Laborde
18/05 - 21/06: Fabrice Samyn & Laetitia de Chocqueuse
25/06 - 16/08: Eric Angenot & Harrisson
08/09 - 18/10: Charlotte Marchand & Frederic Penelle

Info: frederique.versaen@wiels.org +32 (0)486 299946 +32 (0)486 299946

A Wiels Extra muros project
Wiels 295 Avenue Van Volxemlaan 1190 Brussels

Former launderette on the Saint-Denis Square Brussels

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