“We do not see the images of the world in the same way and everyone builds their universe in a unique way by including, as in fairy tales, very different realities.” This is how the exhibition The factories of the heart and their use is introduced, proposed until spring at the MACS, the Museum of Contemporary Arts of the Grand Hornu. For its 20th anniversary,…
“We do not see the images of the world in the same way and everyone builds their universe in a unique way by including, as in fairy tales, very different realities.” This is how the exhibition The factories of the heart and their use is introduced, proposed until spring at the MACS, the Museum of Contemporary Arts of the Grand Hornu. For its 20th anniversary, it was the former director of the place, Laurent Busine, who imagined a route that mixes eras and styles, in a desire for dialogue that brings together authors as different as Max Ernst, James Ensor, Angel Vergara, David Claerbout, Lewis Carroll or Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty. But is Louise Bourgeois’ spider staring at the extraordinary photographic work of Swiss Balthasar Burkhard? Up to you. The subject is tighter in the other Grand Hornu exhibition, Au Charcoal!, in the part of the site occupied by the CID (Center for Innovation and Design). You can discover the polymorphic creativity of design linked to dark matter, a major source of Walloon prosperity. While some countries are restarting the coal industry, despite its polluting contingencies, this route goes from the raw and pure material of an anthracite rock to ceramic-looking pottery via elegant fabrics made from coal. All leading to a large screen that projects the spectacular film by Joanie Lemercier, a French artist who piloted a drone above a gigantic mining site near Cologne. The latter generates 270,000 tons of CO2 every day. The film shows the enormous dark matter-devouring machines at work, next to which the monster machines of Dune act as simple mowers…
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