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Crexida is an association mostly active in the fields of theatre and dance. It is located in a domain on the hills above Bologna. At the end of a 10 days residency, an exhibition is imagined out of some elements found in the backstage area. Scenic structures and accessories are mixed with works on glass and paper brought from Belgium, to create an exhibition/play.

For just one day, an exhibition is mounted by the flemish curator Els Wuyts, in her space in Oostende, Salon Blanc. Three works gathered around their interest about the splitted, reconfigured, multiplied image...

Rosa, Rosa, Rosae, Rosae, is an exhibition imagined by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou for the art space SB34. The theme of this exhibition is the idea of “transmission” envisaged under different angles (education, translation and its differences and gaps...). Within this context come works on paper made out of political leaflets covered with color layers and stamped poems. Political leaflets like the ones widly distributed in the mailboxes of the inhabitants of Brussels in 2019 on the occasion of the local and european elections. The color layer lets the original text of the leaflet visible, while the new text, overprinted in white, interacts with it, creating a superposition of languages. On one side is a snappy discourse, sometimes even populistic, full of wills and intentions for the future (what they wish for the next generation, what they want to pass on). On the other side is a more erratic and humoristic discourse. The two, intertwined, creating a particular kind of political/poetical language.

The Aurelio Petroni Foundation is established in an old palace set up on the heights of Salerno, in the village of San Cipriano Picentino, close to Pompei and Napoli. At the end of a 12 days residency, is inaugurated an exhibition of wall drawings, positionned in different angles of the rooms on the ground floors (the entrance hall, the stables...). It is an exhibition of texts/frescoes that invokes the soul of the building and the region, where wall texts were numerous in the private and public sphere, and always had a significance during the pagan, roman, or christian times. The texts drawn on the walls echo also contemporary Italy, or offer more universal meditations. 

The title of the exhibition Au(s) Mont(s) Sans(s) Souci(s) is inspired by the name of a Brussels street, and by a song written by the french singer Jean-Louis Murat. The letter “s” is added to the title, as if to accentuate its sound dimension (like in the famous maxim of french playwriter Racine “Qui sont ces serpents qui sifflent sur nos têtes” –Who are these snakes whistling over our heads). The “s” is also here to express a plural, attached to the singular (in French, the letter “s” is added to nouns to express their plural, like in English). Mural compositions are spread in the spaces of the gallery, sometimes at unexpected heights. The space of the gallery is taken, metaphorically, for another space, wider, and urban, made of dominant elevations. Works mixed drawings of characters and photographs of contemporary cities, printed on glass, PVC, metal, through silkscreen and lithographic techniques. There is also an additionnal blue light that accentuate a cold atmosphere. Characters look like being imprisonned in the logics of David against Goliath, Sysyphus, or Damocles.

Red Boll / Mentus exchanges ironically two famous brands names (Red Bull and Mentos), alluding to this common habit of companies changing their names to rebrand their images, in order often to erase an embarassing previous public image or to stimulate sales. To get a new virginity, without especially changing their products. The exhibition takes place in a vitrine of an abandonned commercial centre in Brussels, re-colonized by art galleries in the last years. In this narrow space visible day and night (or almost), appears an installation of coloured lights, broken but printed pieces of glass, metalic bars, a can of Red Bull and a pot of Mentos in the role of the waste, or abandonned elements, or heroes of the past...