Is the city still a dream? - PBF03 /
Ximena Echague
16 November to 20 December 2018
Cosmopolitan city-dweller Ximena Echague has been seduced by Brussels, this unique melting-pot of a city whose vibrations she captures.
“Why have the likes of Erasmus, Karl Marx, Victor Hugo and so many others over the centuries chosen to live in Brussels? Was it the city of their dreams, or rather the city where they found the freedom to be themselves? Brussels has chosen a little boy urinating as its emblem, when it is home to the headquarters of the world’s most important military alliance, NATO. As the capital of Europe, it governs the lives of 500 million Europeans, while also being the world capital of the strip cartoon. Brussels is the far north of the Latin world and the far south of the Germanic world. This city is also the unofficial border between two cultures, creating a unique melting-pot. Theatre and festivities; wealth and poverty; age and youth; eurocrats and beggars; circuses and museums, and much more besides, all coexist in a sort of surrealist harmony. This all goes to make Brussels unique and charming.”
