Exhibitions at La Verrière in 2022

2022
View of the exhibition « Tactics of Augmented Dreams », La Verrière, Brussels, 2022 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
View of the exhibition « Tactics of Augmented Dreams », La Verrière, Brussels, 2022 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
View of the exhibition « Tactics of Augmented Dreams », La Verrière, Brussels, 2022 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
La Satellite, Vermillis Spontaneus en milieu tourbeux-bitumé, 2022, Installation, 90x300 cm © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Roy Köhnke, Suspended consumption #4, 2021, plaster, ethernbet cable, steel, 220 x 70 x 70 cm © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
View of the exhibition « Tactics of Augmented Dreams », La Verrière, Brussels, 2022 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
View of the exhibition of Myriam Mihindou “ÉPIDERME”, La Verrière (Brussels), 2022 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
View of the exhibition of Myriam Mihindou “ÉPIDERME”, La Verrière (Brussels), 2022 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
View of the exhibition of Myriam Mihindou “ÉPIDERME”, La Verrière (Brussels), 2022 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
View of the exhibition of Myriam Mihindou “ÉPIDERME”, La Verrière (Brussels), 2022 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
In 2022, the curator and critic Guillaume Désanges presents his final programme at La Verrière. It begins with a group exhibition, “Tactics of Augmented Dreams”, which reflects on the ability of science fiction, anticipation and speculation to facilitate different approaches to reality through new narratives. This will be followed by a solo exhibition by Myriam Mihindou, “ÉPIDERME”, inviting visitors to experience the installation through their bodies and senses.

Constructing an alternative world is a much talked-about objective, but ideas on how to get there are widely divergent. Art offers other ways to achieve this aim, through imagination and fiction, which open up productive fissures in reality. Continuing the ecological reflection begun with the series “Matters of concern | Matières à panser”, Guillaume Désanges wanted to enlarge the field to science fiction, the better, perhaps, to reappropriate the future. The exhibition “Tactics of Augmented Dreams”, which brings together fifteen artists, offers, in the curator’s words, an “archipelago of uncertain forms that act as doors opening onto parallel universes, affirming the imagination’s power to function as a tool for political and social transformation”. At La Verrière, established artists rub shoulders with a younger generation, all driven by the same dream-infused perspective: in a hybridisation of different media and concepts, each of them offers stimulating and unexpected paths into an alternative reality.

Following this group exhibition, science fiction gives way to a more sensory approach. French-Gabonese artist Myriam Mihindou transforms the space of La Verrière into a site for shared experiences, inciting the public to become one with her floor-based works amidst a vast fresco that unfolds around them like a mental landscape. As its title suggests, ÉPIDERME is an exhibition to be experienced physically, or even intimately: an invitation to feel and to celebrate life in all its sensorial and organic dimensions through a practice defined by sobriety and economy of means. With this show that places the living at the heart of artistic practice, Guillaume Désanges closes a decade as curator of La Verrière, in which he has overseen a rich and intensive programme of exhibitions by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès at its Brussels art space.

Disciplines
Visual arts
Lieu
La Verrière, Bruxelles
Bruxelles
Belgium
The exhibition ”Tactics of Augmented Dreams" foregrounds the ability of science fiction to propose narratives for exploring reality in a new way.
With the exhibition “ÉPIDERME”, Myriam Mihindou transforms the space of La Verrière into a site for shared experiences.
This new programme of exhibitions at La Verrière extends the exploration in the series “Matters of concern | Matières à panser”.

Information

  • Exhibition dates
    • “Tactics of Augmented Dreams”, from 28/04/2022 to 24/06/2022
    • Myriam Mihindou "ÉPIDERME", from 29/09/2022 to 03/12/2022
  • Practical information

    La Verrière

    Boulevard de Waterloo 50

    1000 Brussels Belgium

    Free admission, 

    Tuesday to Saturday

    from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

  • Exhibitions brochures
  • Curator

    Guillaume Désanges