14.05, 16 — 20.05, 23 — 26.05, 30.05 — 01.06
Danh Vo Mexico City-Güldenhof
visual arts / mobile installation — premiere
Public space / Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres / KVS BOL / Monument voor de Oorlogsduif/au Pigeon-Soldat
Free
The projects of Danh Vo – born in Vietnam and raised in Denmark – weave personal intimacy into broader themes of history, power and memory. He takes objects steeped in historical and design contexts and realigns them in his installations and sculptures. Aestheticised in a new way, they amplify and transcend their pasts. When invited to participate in this year’s festival, Vo put forth a recently acquired 1970s Fiat hearse. He wished to repurpose the sleekly designed vehicle, with its large windows and spacious interior, as a mobile flower shop nomadically serving the people of Brussels. He collaborated with young car mechanics and electromechanics in training at a local school (Athénée Royal de la Rive Gauche, Laeken) to collectively design the transformation of the hearse. They worked together for months, taking art and floriculture courses, and composing bouquets using plant and mechanical components. Two worlds that seemed far apart now come together in this constant shift of meaning found at the centre of Vo’s artistic practice. The result is a new aesthetic venture, a visually iconic mobile sculpture circulating through the city. Vo’s work is a complex image of our society with multiple conflicting registers, a memento mori, a chariot spreading beauty in the urban sphere.
Practical details
The mobile installation can be seen at several locations, on the dates and times specified below: on three Thursdays at the Monument voor de Oorlogsduif/au Pigeon-Soldat, on three Fridays in the square behind the KVS BOL and on seven other dates at Boulevard d'Ypres 20. Outside these hours, you can also see the vehicle parked at Boulevard d'Ypres 20 (through the glass door).
On 20 May at 15:00, there will also be an Artist talk with Danh Vo. The entrance is free for all activities (no registration required).
14.05
- 15:00 → 20:00
- Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres
- + 17:00: Vernissage
16.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
- Monument voor de Oorlogsduif/au Pigeon-Soldat
17.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
- KVS BOL
18.05
- 15:00 → 20:00
- Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres
19.05
- 15:00 → 20:00
- Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres
20.05
- 15:00 → 20:00
- Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres
- 15:00
- Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres
- Artist talk with Danh Vo
23.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
- Monument voor de Oorlogsduif/au Pigeon-Soldat
24.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
- KVS BOL
25.05
- 15:00 → 20:00
- Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres
26.05
- 15:00 → 20:00
- Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres
30.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
- Monument voor de Oorlogsduif/au Pigeon-Soldat
31.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
- KVS BOL
01.06
- 15:00 → 20:00
- Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Athénée Royal de la Rive Gauche
A project by Danh Vo in collaboration with students from Athénée Royal de la Rive Gauche, Laeken (ARRG): Marouan Arabate, Victor Cosman, Youssef El Azzaoui, Mohamed Essaouiki, Amin Fari, Enrique Martinez Vega, Felipe Ribeiro, Mouhamadou Seck, Youssef Bel Houari, Zacarias Benali Mimon, David Botiz, David Caldaras, Vladimir Chidovat, Alassane Ndiaye, Lilian Ngono, Mohamed-Amine Bounajma, Assaad Cheikhi, Anas El Aissaoui | Thanks to their teachers: Julien Daoud, Aldo Di Venti, Giuseppe Lavia
Commissioned and produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Thanks to KBK Brussels
With the support of the Goethe-Institut Brussels
