Aline Bouvy and Didier Vervaeren
Debating chamber: Piéger les corps
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Debating chambers serve as the public forum of the Département des Pièges. During discussions in the exhibition space, speakers are encouraged to draw inspiration from the objects, paintings and artworks on display. These conversations aim to loosen rigid systems of classification and expand the limits of contextual information. Four sessions will be held during the exhibition. At each session, two speakers explore a specific theme, followed by an open discussion with the public.
- As part of
- Département des Pièges
- Date
- 16:00 — 18:30
- Location
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Room 9
- Rates
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Free
- Tickets
- Tickets available soon
Clémentine Deliss, director of the Metabolic Museum-University and creator of the Département des Pièges, will moderate the discussions.
Seating is limited, but recordings of each Debating Chamber will be available to watch online.
Aline Bouvy lives between Belgium and Luxembourg. Working across sculpture, drawing, photography and sound, her work explores the body's relationship to space, desire and identity, addressing taboos, gender and sexuality. Challenging patriarchal and heteronormative models, she destabilises aesthetic and political codes of power and control. Aline Bouvy represented Luxembourg at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Didier Vervaeren is a scenographer, curator and designer whose career spans fashion, design and photography. A co-founder of XAVIER DELCOUR and the former artistic director of Delvaux, he coordinates the Masters in Accessories at the La Cambre visual arts school in Brussels and has been the artistic director of Fondation A in Brussels since 2021, curating exhibitions on contemporary photography.
About the exhibition
With a wink to Brussels artist Marcel Broodthaers, Clémentine Deliss invites you to enter the Département des Pièges. Here, you will find a selection of unexpected artefacts and paintings from 11 Brussels museums as well as works by contemporary artists. From elaborate fishnets to hunting decoys, psychiatric tests and trompe-l’oeil paintings, each exhibit relates to the concept of the trap. You are invited to study these diverse traps and participate in this "museum-university".
