Brussels Prelude: The Liminal Zone

A photographic and spatial work focusing on the façades and windows of administrative buildings in Brussels’s European Quarter, as well as the construction materials of its buildings and streets. Project components: framed photographs; a sculpture based on a steel and granite structure, with paint hermetically sealed between two panes of glass.

Core concerns: transparency as an ethical model; reflection and transparency; the blurred boundaries between public institutionality, private life, and subjectivity.

One of the project’s central nodes was the question of the concentration of power: glass architecture as a promise of transparency, and the screen as its operative surface enabling control. The work brought together motifs and tensions that were later further developed in Transparency Register.

Exhibition text: Ekaterina Shcherbakova