Visite particulière du 51 rue Forestière
Exhibition performance created in collaboration with
Barbara Geraci, Sixtine Jacquart and Leïla Pile
Curation and text by Clémentine Davin
at LOSANGE, Brussels. 2025
A particular visit
At 51 Rue Forestière in Ixelles, art infiltrates reality to initiate a new form of sharing, another way of meeting and being together.
Born out of a profound desire to slow down the usual pace surrounding the creation, production, and presentation of an exhibition, this proposal was built on the opportunity to let oneself be carried and transported by collective energy, to the point of becoming a shared creative residency.
Four visual artists - Anaïs Chabeur, Leïla Pile, Barbara Geraci, and Sixtine Jacquart - took over a large family home as if inhabiting a story. Combining their feelings and sensibilities, they have created a shared space, a fictional hospitality where each piece becomes a place of experience and transmission, and where the house itself takes on the role of a character - the protagonist of a story that unfolds as you walk through it.
The public is invited to cross the threshold, not to contemplate but to take part in this experience of proximity. Here, the artworks are not exhibited, they seep in and slip into the folds and creases of everyday life. Guided by the artists, the visit becomes a performance. The “At home” naturally transforms into a space of reciprocity, of silent conversation. The pieces are activated, traces and memories take shape, gestures are imprinted. Before our eyes, everything literally takes shape.
Questioning affordance to better reveal what underlies it. Each proposal is the result of reflection on ways of inhabiting a place, imbued with exchanges and gestures experienced on site. Questions resonate in space: how do we inhabit? How do we welcome? How can we translate and materialize the experience of encounter?
As gestures and actions are delegated, the artists’ personal identities fade away to make room and give voice to the group’s potential. From piece to piece, their singularities respond to each other and their practices intertwine, until they compose a polyphonic narrative in which everything can have the value of an echo.
To enter here is to accept being traversed by the other.
Clémentine Davin
A sentence engraved on a doorbell nameplate
Two metal rings
Twenty-one crocheted wool slippers
A metronome
A porcelain and silicone ball
A woven linen and wool ribbon
Felt pads
Two books
One folded A1 sheet
Two glass triangles with sandblasted words
Dried verbena leaves and linden blossoms, honey, lemon, ginger