Yesterday i was in Hasselt (Belgium) to visit the exhibition PLACE@SPACE – (re)shaping everyday life at Z33.

PLACE@SPACE presents installations by GRRRR (Ingo Giezendanner), Ryoji Ikeda, Irational.org, limiteazero, Alice Miceli, Haruki Nishijima, Egle Rakauskaite, Reconfigurable House Team and many other artists who look into the spatial impact of technologies and demonstrate how we can use them to reclaim our spatial environment and to make it our own again.

Arturas Valiauga, I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life, 8 – 2002-2003

I can’t explain why having so many artists whose work i admire gathered under the same roof failed to elicit much enthusiasm from me. Maybe it would help if i wasn’t visiting so many media art exhibitions? I don’t know… I was very happy to discover that one of Boutique Vizique‘s dustbunnies had left traces of its passage in the gallery though. And i liked the fact that the curators took such a broad approach on the theme.

I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life, 2002-2003, Arturas Valiauga

For example, if many of the names in the programme could be called “the usual suspects”, there were also some moving photographies by Lithuanian artist Arturas Valiauga. They showed how a couple is bringing the world into their house bit by bit by plastering their walls and furniture with candy wrappers, newspaper and magazine cuttings. As the catalog says “Home becomes the map of the inside and outside world.”

I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life, 4, 2002-2003

The exhibition runs through May 25 at z33 in Hasselt, Belgium.

Images from the exhibition.

Previously at z33: Designing Critical Design (part 1 and part 2.)