Skywalkers cross here
Avenue Antoine Depage, 1050 Ixelles, Bruxelles more…
Sheep maintenance
La Ferme du Parc Maximilien, Quai du Batelage 2, 1000 bxl A sight you don’t encounter everyday in a city: this sheep needs medical attention and is being held by its caretaker. The poor animal seems to be paralised in a calm state of anxiety. Three very worried cohabitants observe the alarming scene on their […] more…
Black face
Rue de Montenegro, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Bxl A girls face on an icecream publicity, blocked out with a spray can. more…
Foam Head
Metro Central Station, 1000 Brussels more…
Desigual drama
Inno, Rue Neuve, 1000 BXL A drama took place in the window of the Inno department store. Was it the bear? the christmas tree ? more…
Black Marker revisited
After the subtle black marble tomb-stone like intervention of artist Pierre Lizin (see this post) had disappeared, a space opened up for once again a re-inscription of the word ‘arabe’. The typography and handwriting are in line with the one in this post from 2010. more…
Marble arab
A new chapter in the political corrections to the ‘monument for the Congo warrior’. See the ‘Congo Monument’ chapter for other posts. At the spots in the text where it used to read ‘araabsche’ / ‘arabe’, black marble squares have been placed. Marble seems to be more resistant to scratching then the original sandstone of […] more…
Short sword
Luchtvaartsquare, 1070 Anderlecht Brussel The post below shows that it is not the first time that the sword of the monument for the “Fun fair workers” is split in two halves. In 2008 it also broke but it was hanging on for a long time thanks to a temporary construction. Apparently the quality of the […] more…
Lost Sole
Mysterious map on orphan sandal. Sainqtelette square, brxl more…
Don’t walk on tram
Rue Gallait, Brussels more…
Atomium Poses
Atomium, Brussels Gestures derived from the shapes of the Atomium building. more…
Museum floor
The Museum of Ancient Art, Brussels Sunday afternoon visitors flowing in repetitive patterns through the central museum hall. more…
The Passion for Clients
blvd Anspach, Brussels This sign for an employment agency reads ‘passion for clients’ but the visual language of the display, the way the posters are mounted on a colonial façade inbetween classical statues of some roman looking woman has some ‘master and servants’ connotations. Both the women represented in the statues and the women in […] more…
Cleaner Statues
Rue du Musée / Museumstraat more…
Woman, gas burner, household steps, roof window
Boulevard du Jubilé, Molenbeek more…
Safety for all
On a short visit to Rotterdam two people crossed my path driving electric wheelchairs pimped with reflective materials, sensors, meters, flashing lights. The women tells me she and her son tour Holland to raise consciousness for safety conditions of wheelchair users. They came directly from Rijswijk, some thirty kilometers from Rotterdam. Her sons cap reads […] more…
Phantome scooter
Campus VUB, 1050 Ixelles more…
Don’t sit here 2
Arduinkaai, Delvoy sculpture, photo by Tristan Boniver more…
Don’t sit here
Rue Stephenson, 1030 Schaarbeek A barrier against abuse of a windowsill made from flipped over flower pots held together with some strips of plastic tape. more…
Arabische / arabe on the move
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Vousetesici !
picture by Lo-bat more…
Glorieusement gesneuveld
Between Square de l’Aviation and Boulevard Poincarelaan, statue for the fallen Fun fair worker. This statue commemorates the travelling fun fair workers who died for Belgium in 1914-18 and 1940-45. It holds a masque in its right hand and a sword in its left. Since a few weeks the sword is broken. Likely reason: someone […] more…
Hors Service
Metro Ribaucourt The new anti cellulite revolution has arrived! l’Oreal’s Perfect Slim solution. Somebody must have had something against the billboard and smashed the glass. The transportation company STIB MIVB reacted by swiftly pasting a sticker on the smashed glass. Not on top of the hole though, but just above it, right over the depicted […] more…
Congo monument extended
For the website of the Afrika-Vereniging van de Universiteit Gent Lucas Catherine wrote a short article about the political corrections on the Congo monument in the Jubelpark. more…
Santa spotting
Avenue de la Renaissance more…
Illegible addition
See earlier changes made to this monumental text: Arabe in/out l\’Arabe / arabische (…) slavendrijver more…
Radical gesture
Avenue de la joyeuse more…
Encore een jongen
Hamme – Mille, nextdoor to Indonesian restaurant Bali. more…
Arabe in / out
The left wing of the monument to the belgian pioneers in Congo in the Parc Cinquantenaire reads: “l’heroisme militaire belge aneantit l’arabe esclavagiste”. The information panel which is placed next to the right wing of the monument refers to this text, but without repeating the before mentioned ‘arab origins’ of the slavetraders. Allthough the info […] more…
l’Arabe / Arabische
“l’heroisme militaire belge aneantit l’arabe esclavagiste / de belgische militaire heldenmoed verdelgt den arabische slavendrijver” This inscription is part of the ‘Monument for the pioneers in Congo’ in the Parc du Cinquantenaire, which was erected in 1921. Recently the “Monument for the pioneers in Congo” has been textually corrected. It is not the first time […] more…
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