art brussels with Louwrien Wijers, 24-27 april 2015 - booth 3C-50C


A physical interior space and the fabric of a former zeppelin shape Louwrien Wijers presentation for Art Brussels. Coming down softly over the walls the silvery fabric is witness to many art narratives and to a personal history of interior design. This material was used to cover the walls of a room in Wijers house on Herengracht 1, Amsterdam, which for decades had been a meeting place for many artists and thinkers.

During the 1970s, after flying at high altitudes far above the earth and far from many living rooms, the textile was packed up in a hardware shop in Amsterdam where the artist would pass by. Wijers started buying pieces of it from time to time to cover the walls of her room. She once said that she wanted to live in airplanes.

In this mental space, at booth 3C-50C, artists Kasper Bosmans (Lommel, Belgium, 1990), Marthe Ramm Fortun (Oslo, Norway, 1978) and Lola Lasurt Bachs (Barcelona, Spain,1983) will talk to Wijers.

The conversation takes place on Saturday April 25th starting at 1pm.

Through the years in Amsterdam, surrounded by the skin of a former zeppelin, Wijers would sit and use a typewriter to record the talks she had with many local and international artists such as Joseph Beuys, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Heinisch, Ben D’Armangac, Luigi Ontani and Marina Abramovic. Wijers developed a practice that took her from metal to mental sculptures, as she coined them. At Art Brussels part of her archive will be available as a publication in progress. Her work focused and expanded on talks, interviews with her artists peers, and traveling, both through physical and mental spaces. As such, the installation functions somehow as a physical counterpart to a practice that focuses on the immaterial.