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samedi 02.07.2016

Ballet of destruction

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Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil were chosen for the 2016 “Public Art Experience” programme at the Site industriel de Belval.

“The artists started their collaboration in 2002. In 2012 they won the award of the residency of La Cité Internationale des Artistes in Paris,” according to the Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery. “They showed at the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia in 2011.”

Their 6 month residency in the former factory in Belval allowed them to initiate a reflection on the consequences of the evolution of the production technologies.

Now the result is on display in Esch-Belval.

Feipel and Bechameil “have been intrigued by the disproportionate and surreal nature of the remains of the former factory”,  said the Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery. For their installation “Ballet of destruction” they chose to stage some of these obsolete objects and stress the particularities of the exhibition space.

Pictured: “Ballet of destruction”. Image: Patty Neu